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Statue of Osir-Canope

Statue of Osir-Canope
© BA Antiquities Museum/M. Mounir

Registration Number(s)
BAAM Serial Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum Number T0020

Inv.Inventory
 (Greco-Roman Museum) 25786

Statue of Osir-Canope

Category:
Sculpture in the round, statues, human / gods and goddesses statues
Date:
Graeco-Roman Period, Roman Period, early second cent. CE
Provenance:
Lower Egypt, Alexandria, El-Ras El-Soda (Taposiris Parva)
Material(s):
Rock, marble
Height:
95 cm
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
  • Achille Adriani, Annuaire du Musée gréco-romain, 1935-1939 (Alexandria: Imprimerie de la société de publications égyptiennes, 1940): 144-145, pls. LIII.1, LIX.1
  • Franck Goddio and Aurélia Masson-Berghoff, eds., The BP Exhibition: Sunken Cities: Egypt's Lost Worlds (London: Thames and Hudson, 2016): 236-237.

 

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