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Headless statue of Isis

Headless statue of Isis
© BA Antiquities Museum/M. Aly

Registration Number(s)
BAAM Serial Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum Number T0013

Inv.Inventory
 (Greco-Roman Museum) 31424

Headless statue of Isis

Category:
Sculpture in the round, statues, human / gods and goddesses statues
Date:
Graeco-Roman Period (332 BCE-395 CE)
Provenance:
Lower Egypt, Alexandria, Abukir
Material(s):
Rock, basalt
Height:
100 cm
This artifact was temporarily displayed at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum from 2008 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
  • Nicolas Grimal et al., La gloire d'Alexandrie: Exposition, Paris, Musée du Petit Palais, 7 mai-26 juillet 1998 (Paris: Association française d'action artistique, 1998): 239, 282.
  • Doreya Said, “A Statue of Isis”, Bulletin de la Société d’Archéologie d’Alexandrie 45 (1993): 291-294, pl. LVI.
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