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
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
- Achille Adriani, Annuaire du Musée gréco-romain, 1935-1939 (Alexandria: Imprimerie de la société de publications égyptiennes, 1940): 139-140, pl. LV.1.
- Achille Adriani, Testimonianze e momenti di scultura alessandrina, Documenti e ricerche d'arte alessandrina 2. (Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 1948): 22, pl. 17.3.
- Enayat M. Ahmed, Les stèles magiques “Cippes d’Horus” et leur <sic.> relation avec le dieu du soleil, Publications of the Archaeological Society of Alexandria. Archaeological and Historical Studies 9 (Alexandria: Archaeological Society of Alexandria, 2002): 73, fig 12.
- Françoise Dunand, Le culte d'Isis dans le bassin oriental de la Méditerranée I, Le culte d'Isis et les Ptolémées, vol. 1, Le culte d'Isis et les Ptolémées, Etudes préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'empire romain 26 (Leiden: Brill, 1973): pl. XI, 1.
- Fekri Hassan et al., eds., Alexandria Graeco-Roman Museum: A Thematic Guide (Cairo: National Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage; The Supreme Council of Antiquities, 2002): 110-111.
- Dietrich Wildung and Günter Grimm, eds., Götter und Pharaonen: Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim, 29. Mai-16. September 1979 (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1979): no. 149.