UNPUBLISHED FUNERARY STELE FROM EL-ASHMUNEIN ARCHAEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE (INV. NO. 678)
عبد الفتاح, . (2022). UNPUBLISHED FUNERARY STELE FROM EL-ASHMUNEIN ARCHAEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE (INV. NO. 678). EKB Journal Management System, 26(4), 127-140. doi: 10.21608/shak.2022.239548
عبد الباسط على عبد الفتاح. "UNPUBLISHED FUNERARY STELE FROM EL-ASHMUNEIN ARCHAEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE (INV. NO. 678)". EKB Journal Management System, 26, 4, 2022, 127-140. doi: 10.21608/shak.2022.239548
عبد الفتاح, . (2022). 'UNPUBLISHED FUNERARY STELE FROM EL-ASHMUNEIN ARCHAEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE (INV. NO. 678)', EKB Journal Management System, 26(4), pp. 127-140. doi: 10.21608/shak.2022.239548
عبد الفتاح, . UNPUBLISHED FUNERARY STELE FROM EL-ASHMUNEIN ARCHAEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE (INV. NO. 678). EKB Journal Management System, 2022; 26(4): 127-140. doi: 10.21608/shak.2022.239548

UNPUBLISHED FUNERARY STELE FROM EL-ASHMUNEIN ARCHAEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE (INV. NO. 678)

مجلة الدراسات الإنسانية والأدبية
Article 4, Volume 26, Issue 4, January 2022, Page 127-140  XML PDF (1.32 MB)
Document Type: المقالة الأصلية
DOI: 10.21608/shak.2022.239548
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عبد الباسط على عبد الفتاح
کلية الاثار .جامعة مرسى مطروح
Abstract
This paper examins an unpublished stele of a woman from El-Ashmunein Archaeological Magazine (Inv.No. 678).It is carved in limestone of roughly rectangular shape with an arched top, 73 cm high and 30 cm wide. The thickness of the limestone slab is 11–11.5 cm.
The stele depicts a standing female figure in frontal pose, dressed in a Greek style tunic with a round high-cut neckline, and a himation enveloping the figure in the arm-sling variant.
The aim of this paper is to propose a date and place of production for this object, depending on the analytical study and the parallel examples
The funerary relief in question must have belonged to a woman of importance and high social standing in Roman Egypt as suggested by her robes. The parallel examples discussed in this study  assume that our stele belongs among the funerary reliefs from Oxyrhynchos and can be dated to the end of the second to the early third century AD
تتناول هذه الورقة البحثية شاهد قبر غير منشور، من الحجر الجيري، محفوظ بالمخزن المتحفي بالأشمونيين برقم (678)، ارتفاعه 73سم، عرضه 30سم، والسمک 11-11.5 سم. للأسف مکان الاکتشاف غير معلوم، ملامح الوجه مدمرة، الجزء العلوي، والجزء السفلي من الشاهد. وهو ما شکل تحدياً في دراسة هذه القطعة.
 يمثل الشاهد سيدة تقف في الوضع الأمامي. ترتدي قميص ضيق بفتحة دائرية، وعباءة. تستند باليد اليمني علي الصدر، بينما تحمل في يسراها ما يشبه باقة ورد. تهدف هذه الورقة البحثية إلي تأريخ الشاهد، وتحديد المکان الذي أتي منه، والمکانة الاجتماعية لصاحبة الشاهد.
الدراسة التحليلية للقطعة المکتشفة، من خلال طراز الملابس ،الوقفة، والأمثلة المقارنة أثبتت أن الشاهد يمثل سيدة رومانية تحتل مکانة اجتماعية مرموقة اعتمادا علي طراز الملابس وثناياها الثرية، کما أن معظم الأمثلة التي تم تناولها في هذه الدراسة ترجع إلي إقليم اوکسيرنخوس (البهنسا) في المنيا، ولعل هذا الشاهد قد اتي من هناک. يمکن تأريخ هذا لشاهد بنهاية القرن الثاني وبداية الثالث الميلادي.
Keywords
Funerary stele; Limestone; El-Bahnasa; Oxyrhynchos; El-Ashmunein Archaeological Magazine; Arm-sling variant
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