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A Boy’s Gravestone from Middle Egypt

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Last updated: 31 Dec 2024

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The paper deals with an unpublished gravestone (Inv. No. 644, the SCA el-Ashmunein Archaeological Magazine/Storeroom) of a boy standing before a richly decorated niche. He is dressed in a simple long-sleeved tunic with a big round neckline. Clutched in his left hand is a bunch of grapes, whereas the object in his right hand could be a floral garland. Nothing is known about this stele's owner, date, and provenance. An analytical study of the relief carving style and the architectural form of the niche has demonstrated that the gravestone should be attributed to Oxyrhynchus, and dated towards the end of the 3rd or the early 4th century AD. It is also proposed that the funerary relief was of a boy of high social standing, a member of the elite living in Roman Egypt at this time.

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10.21608/iwnw.2024.400969

Keywords

Oxyrhynchus - bunch of grapes - carved niche, modillion - Roman art

Authors

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Abdel-Basset

Last Name

Abdel-Fattah

MiddleName

Ali

Affiliation

department of Graeco-Roman Archaeology/ Faculty of Archaeology and Languages/ Matrouh University, Egypt

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abdelbaset.ali@mau.edu.eg

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0000-0003-0242-2912

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3

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1

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47223

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2024-11-01

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2024-12-29

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2024-11-01

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189

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201

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2812-5169

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A Boy’s Gravestone from Middle Egypt

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31 Dec 2024