Pyxis lid with the figure of Aphrodite

Classification

casket ; relief

Culture

Graeco-Egyptian (culture)

Dimensions

height: 11.2 cm; width: 5.2 cm

Period

Roman Imperial Period (Egypt, 30 B.C. – 395 A.D.)

Material

clay

Iconography

Aphrodite Anadyomene ; shrine (naos, cella); column ; Corinthian column ; solar disk ; tabula ansata

Inscription

Greek (language)

Production place

Egypt

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Arndt, Paul (1865–1937)

Inventory

T.502.2

ID

Hyp-919

References

Török 1995, 28–29, no. 4; Oroszlán 1930, 69, D 47

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