Category:
Furniture and furnishing, furniture
Date:
Graeco-Roman Period, Roman Period, 2nd cent. CE
Provenance:
Lower Egypt, Alexandria, El-Mehamara (Sidi Bishr)
Material(s):
Rock, marble
This artifact was temporarily displayed at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum from 2007 until it was returned to the Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria on 16 August 2022.
The information given here is subject to modification/update as a result of ongoing research.
References
- Patrizio Pensabene and Eleonora Gasparini, “The Trade in Small-Size Statues in the Roman Mediterranean: A Case Study from Alexandria”, in ASMOSIA X: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference of ASMOSIA (Association for the Study of Marble & Other Stones in Antiquity) Rome, 21-26 May 2012: Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Stone (Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2015): 101-108.