Mortuary stela of a boy
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Mosaic representing Orpheus

Mortuary stela of Apollos

Classification
funerary stela
Culture
Graeco-Egyptian (culture)
Dimensions
height: 28 cm; width: 20 cm
Date
second half of the 1st century A.D.
Period
Early Imperial Period (1st century)
Material
limestone
Iconography
offering scene; male figure; Horus; Anubis; architectural frame; column; acroterium; chiton; himation
Inscription
Greek (language)
Production place
Egypt
Findspot
Terenuthis (Kom Abu Billu)
Present location
Alexandria, National Museum
Provenance
Cairo, Coptic Museum
Inventory
834
ID
Per-5270
Condition
Bold relief. Traces of black paint on the figures of Horus and Anubis and red paint on the inscriptions.
References
El-Nassery–Wagner–Abdul, in BIFAO 78 (1978), 239, no. 6, pl. LXXI; Gabra 1993, 50, no. 1; Rutschowscaya–Bénazeth 2000, 48, no. 22; Török 2005a, 44, no. 3; Török 2005b, 38, no. 3

The relief represents a male figure standing with raised arms between Horus and Anubis. He holds up an arched object which may be identified as a folded piece of linen, possibly the shroud in which his mummified body would be wrapped in the tomb.

The figure and the deities appear in an architectural frame, which symbolises the tomb as the shrine of the mortuary cult of the deceased.

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