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Statuette of a tambourine player

Category:

Sculpture in the round, figurines / statuettes, human / gods and goddesses figurines

Date:

Graeco-Roman Period, Roman Period, 1st cent. CE

Provenance:

Upper Egypt, Fayoum, Umm El-Brigat (Tebtonis/Tebtunis) (excavations of the Ifao and the University of Milan, 1992 season)

Material(s):

Man made material, pottery (terracotta)

Height:

15.9 cm;

Width:

6.9 cm;

Depth:

2.9 cm

Hall:

Greco-Roman Antiquities, showcase 18

The information given here is subject to modification/update as a result of ongoing research.

References

Pascal Ballet, “Terres cuites isiaques de l’Egypte hellénistique et romaine: État de la recherche et des publications”, in De Memphis à Rome: Actes du Ier Colloque international sur les études isiaques, Poitiers - Futuroscope, 8-10 avril 1999, edited by Laurent Bricault, Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 140 (Leiden: Brill, 2000): 91-110.
Claudio Gallazzi and Gisèle Hadji-Minaglou, Trésors inattendus: 30 ans de fouilles et de coopération à Tebtynis (Fayoum), Bibliothèque générale 57 (Cairo: Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, 2019): 223, no. 150.

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