THREE UNPUBLISHED SCULPTURE WORKS IN THE COPTIC MUSEUM

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Greek & Roman Archaeology dept., Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo Univ., Cairo, Egypt

Abstract

This article gives publication and full study of three sculpture works preserved in the Coptic
Museum. Two of them are funerary figures, or Portrait Stelae, several examples of this type
were found in many orts and cities of Middle and Upper Egypt, in Fayoum, Ihnasia,
Antoniopolis, El-Bahnasa, Bauit, Qift, and Kom el-Rahieb opposite of Samalout in Minia, and
the third is a portrait of a mature man. These three pieces arrived to the Coptic Museum since
more than thirty years. The museum Kept them under Nrs. 13247, 13248, 13178. The Article
contains also an analytic and dating study, together with spotting more lights upon the
religious and cultural life, so also on the main characteristics of artworks during the era of
Late Roman and early Coptic Art.

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