Campana relief: Dionysus with a satyr
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Plastic vase in the shape of a reclining comic actor

Mortuary stela of Heraclas

Classification
funerary stela; funerary relief
Culture
Graeco-Egyptian (culture)
Dimensions
height: 30 cm; width: 25 cm
Date
second half of the 1st – first half of the 2nd century
Period
Roman Imperial Period (Egypt, 30 B.C. – 395 A.D.)
Material
limestone
Iconography
male figure; himation; chiton; drinking vessel; table; amphora; couch (kline); Anubis
Inscription
Greek (language)
Production place
Egypt
Findspot
Terenuthis (Kom Abu Billu)
Present location
Cairo, Coptic Museum
Inventory
12341
ID
Per-5522
References
El-Nassery–Wagner–Abdul, in BIFAO 78 (1978), 248 no. 30, pl. LXXVII.; Török 2005a, 48-50.; Török 2005b, 41-42.

The relief represents the deceased reclining upon a kline. He is wearing a chiton and a himation and extends a two-handled stemmed cup in his right hand. The figure of Anubis as a jackal appears in the upper left corner of the relief. In front of the couch are represented a sheaf of wheat, an amphora on its stand, a wine vessel and a tripod in which rest two shallow cups and a small jug. Although the relief depicts a young man, the inscription commemorates a forty-year old person: "Heraclas, about 40 years old. Year 12, Athyr 3. Be of good courage."
 

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