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Funerary Stele with Family Portrait
2nd-4th century AD (Late Antique)
limestone with plaster ground and paint
(Byzantium and Early Russia)
(Byzantium and Early Russia)
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.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?); Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 2000 | Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. |
| 1989 | 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. |
| 1941 | Pagan and Christian Egypt: Egyptian Art from the First to the Tenth Century A. D.. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 6/22/1971 | Treatment | cleaned |
| 6/9/1987 | Loan Consideration | examined for loan |
| 1/13/1989 | Treatment | cleaned; other |
| 11/24/1998 | Examination | survey |
| 5/3/1999 | Loan Consideration | examined for loan |
| 5/4/1999 | Treatment | cleaned; loss compensation; other |
Measurements
H: 13 3/4 x W: 15 13/16 in. (35 x 40.2 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1923
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
26.3