Category:
Sculpture in the round, statues, human / gods and goddesses statues, busts
Date:
Graeco-Roman Period (332 BCE-395 CE)
Provenance:
Lower Egypt, Alexandria
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
- Evaristo Breccia, “Sculture inedite del Museo Greco-Romano”, Bulletin de la Société d’Archéologie d’Alexandrie 26 (1931): 258-270, pl. XXVI.
- Jean-Yves Empereur, Alexandria Rediscovered, translated by Margaret Maehler, photographs by Stéphane Compoint (London: British Museum Press, 1998): 93.
Franck Goddio and Aurélia Masson-Berghoff, eds., The BP Exhibition: Sunken Cities: Egypt's Lost Worlds (London: Thames and Hudson, 2016): 80-81.
- 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): 104-105.
- Kyriakos Savvopoulos, Robert Steven and Yasmine Hussein, The Omar Toussoun Collection in the Graeco-Roman Museum, Graeco-Roman Museum Series 2 (Alexandria: Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Alexandria and Mediterranean Research Center, 2013): 130-131.