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Dancer playing a tambourine

Dancer playing a tambourine
© BA Antiquities Museum/C. Gerigk

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Dancer playing a tambourine

Category:
Sculpture in the round, figurines / statuettes, human / gods and goddesses figurines
Date:
Graeco-Roman Period, Roman Period (31 BCE-395 CE)
Provenance:
Upper Egypt, Fayoum
Material(s):
Man made material, pottery (terracotta)
Height:
11.5 cm
Hall:
Greco-Roman Antiquities, showcase 18



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

References
  • Giuseppe Botti, Catalogue des monuments exposés au Musée Gréco-Romain d’Alexandrie (Alexandria: Imprimerie Générale A. Mourès, 1901): 22, no. 272.
  • Evaristo Breccia, Monuments de l’Egypte Gréco-Romaine, vol. 2 (Bergamo: Officine dell’Istituto Italiano d’Arti Grafiche, 1934): 52, pl. LIX, 290.
  • Zahi Hawass, ed., Bibliotheca Alexandrina: The Archaeology Museum (Cairo: The Supreme Council of Antiquities, 2002): 82, 86.
  • Mona Serry, ed., Bibliotheca Alexandrina: Antiquities Museum, introduction by Ismail Serageldin (Alexandria: Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Antiquities Museum, 2015): 107, 318.
  • رحاب علي صابر علي محمد، المرأة في مصر بين التعليم والتدريب: دراسة وثائقية للعصرين البطلمي والروماني (رسالة ماجستير، جامعة الإسكندرية. كلية الآداب. قسم الآثار والدراسات اليونانية والرومانية، 2016): 109، 174.
     
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