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Gravestone of a thinker

Gravestone of a thinker
© BA Antiquities Museum/C. Gerigk

Registration Number(s)
BAAM Serial Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum Number 0246

Inv.Inventory
 (Greco-Roman Museum) 22108

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Greco-Roman Antiquities

Gravestone of a thinker

Category:
Tomb equipment, gravestones
Date:
Graeco-Roman Period (332 BCE-395 CE)
Provenance:
Lower Egypt, Alexandria, El-Hadara (Hadra Necropolis)
Material(s):
Rock, limestone
Height:
63 cm;
Width:
41 cm
Hall:
Greco-Roman Antiquities



The information given here is subject to modification/update as a result of ongoing research.

References
  • Evaristo Breccia, “Nuovi scavi nelle necropoli di Hadra”, Bulletin de la Société Archéologique d’Alexandrie 25 (1930): 115, pl. XV.
  • Zahi Hawass, ed., Bibliotheca Alexandrina: The Archaeology Museum (Cairo: The Supreme Council of Antiquities, 2002): 69.
  • Mona Serry, ed., Bibliotheca Alexandrina: Antiquities Museum, introduction by Ismail Serageldin (Alexandria: Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Antiquities Museum, 2015): 101, 318.

     
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