LOT 26 Coptic Funerary Stela Relief with Figures of Anubis
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4th-5th century AD. A carved stone funerary stela bearing the figure of a man in low relief, his hands raised in the orans attitude of wor, dressed in a long fringed shroud (himation), the right shoulder bare, two jackals at his sides representing Anubis to apany him on his journey to the afterlife; dedication inscribed below: '..?A????C ????c' ('...paatris, prematurely dead'); mounted on a ctom-made display stand. See Hooper, F.A., Funerary stelae from Kom Abou Billou, The University of Michigan, Kelsey, 1961; Wagdy, A.M., El-Ebiary, H., 'New Funerary Stelae from Kom About Bellou' in Bulletin de l'Institut francais d'archeologie orientale, Le Cairo, 2011, no.111, pp.371-384, figs.7, 8. 764 grams, 17.5 x 11.5cm (1.1 kg total, 24cm including stand) (7 x 4 1/2 (9 1/2)"). North London gentleman, in storage since the 1970s. Property of a West London gentleman. Elements of Greek, Roman, and Egyptian religio practice converge in this stela, making it an important object of Romano-Egyptian material culture. These stelae show abination of two iconographical traditions, arranged according to the demands of the Graeco-Egyptian mixed population. More than two-hundred similar stelae were excavated by the Kelsey Meum Archaeologists in the city of Terenouthis. Unfortunately, the name of the owner is notplete. However, the name ?????? (Tatris) is quoted many times by Hooper (see above"). [No Reserve]
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