Category:
Religious / Cult objects, ex-votos
Date:
Graeco-Roman Period, Roman Period (31 BCE-395 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 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): 145-146, pl. LIV.
- Franck Goddio and Aurélia Masson-Berghoff, eds., The BP Exhibition: Sunken Cities: Egypt's Lost Worlds (London: Thames and Hudson, 2016): 238.
- 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): 73.
- Theodora Suk Fong Jim, “Individual ‘Salvation’: Personal Needs and ‘Saving’ Experiences”, in Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022): 102-104, figs. 5a, 5b.
- William La Riche, Alexandria: Septième merveille du monde, photographs by Stéphane Compoint (Paris: France Loisir, 1996): 39-40.