sculpture

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Object Type
Museum number: EA1847
Description: Limestone relief statue of a woman from a niche; long robe; right hand is held away from the body; left arm damaged; traces of yellow, red and black colouring. Object comes probably from a tomb-chapel.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 3rd-4thC
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Oxyrhynchus (city)
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 143 centimetres; Width: 49 centimetres; Depth: 23 centimetres (max)
Curator's comments: Cf. to Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (Schneider 1981) and Oxyrhynchos portrait sculpture dated 2nd-3rd century (Thomas 2000).
Bibliographic references: Buckton 1994 / Byzantium: Treasures of Byzantine art and culture from British collections (p.54, nr.38) (by Rowena Loverance); Parlasca 1978 / Der Uebergang von der spaetroemischen zur fruehkoptischen Kunst im Lichte der Grabreliefs von Oxyrhynchos (p.118) (n.30, cited as comparanda)
Location: On display (G66/dc7)
Condition: fair - left arm damaged, feet lost
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1971
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA1847
Registration number: 1971,1212.1
Conservation: Treatment: 26 Feb 1996; Gallery Clean: 19 Mar 2004

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