File:Coptic - Funerary Stele with Family Portrait - Walters 263.jpg
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Funerary Stele with Family Portrait
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| Artist |
Anonymous (Coptic) |
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| Title |
Funerary Stele with Family Portrait |
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| Description |
English: 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. |
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| Date | 2nd-4th century AD (Late Antique) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | limestone with plaster ground and paint | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 35 cm (13.7 in); width: 40.2 cm (15.8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
26.3 |
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| Place of creation | Burma (in present-day Myanmar) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Exhibition history | 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Acquired by Henry Walters, 1923 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inscriptions | [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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Walters Art Museum:  Home page  Info about artwork |
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