THREE UNPUBLISHED SCULPTURE WORKS IN THE COPTIC MUSEUM

Abstract

This article gives publication and full study of three sculpture works preserved in the CopticMuseum. Two of them are funerary figures, or Portrait Stelae, several examples of this typewere found in many orts and cities of Middle and Upper Egypt, in Fayoum, Ihnasia,Antoniopolis, El-Bahnasa, Bauit, Qift, and Kom el-Rahieb opposite of Samalout in Minia, andthe third is a portrait of a mature man. These three pieces arrived to the Coptic Museum sincemore than thirty years. The museum Kept them under Nrs. 13247, 13248, 13178. The Articlecontains also an analytic and dating study, together with spotting more lights upon thereligious and cultural life, so also on the main characteristics of artworks during the era ofLate Roman and early Coptic Art.