Funerary Stele with Family Portrait

2nd-4th century AD (Late Antique)

40.2 cm 35 cm

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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.

Sculpture

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25044
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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?); Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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