MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | Coptic_-_Funerary_Stele_with_Family_Portrait_-_Walters_263.jpg (1800x1596) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | commons.wikimedia.org | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: Coptic - Funerary Stele with Family Portrait - Walters 263.jpg This relef stele depicts two women a girl and a boy on a funeral couch between two jackals The two jackals are the jackel god of the dead Anubis The piece has an inscription in Greek and is said to be from Akhmim 2nd-4th century AD Late Antique limestone with plaster ground and paint cm 35 40 2 accession number 26 3 25044 Dikran Kelekian New York and Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1923 Translation Didymis 40 years old Theodora her daughter 19 Athas a baby of one year not represented Dionysarin 45 Athur 10 1st year of the indiction Farewell Pagan and Christian Egypt Egyptian Art from the First to the Tenth Century A D Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn 1941 Beyond the Pharaohs Egypt and the Copts in the Second to Seventh Centuries A D Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design Providence; The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1989 Ancient Faces Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 2000 place of origin Burma in present-day Myanmar Walters Art Museum license Coptic art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Coptic funerary steles Ancient Egyptian art from Akhmim | ||||
