Bois travaillé du Ier au XVe sc.1st to 15th century worked wood
Iwona Zych
HAECKL, Anne E.
The wooden ‘Aphrodite’ panel
SIDEBOTHAM, Steven E. ; WENDRICH, Wilhelmina Z.
Berenike 1997. Report of the 1997 Excavations at Berenike and the Survey of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, Including Excavations at Shenshef
CNWS, Leiden, 1999, p. 243-255
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domaine artistique artistic sphere domaine domestique domestic sphere domaine individuel individual sphere
(p. 243)
Panel 110 mm x 55 mm, composed of four separate architectural and figural appliqués, affixed to a flat plaque-like panel by 11 extant circular wooden dowels. Probably from a small box or casket, most likely intended to hold cosmetics, perfume or toilette articles. Carved in deep relief image of Aphrodite inside an architectural naos, combining classical and Egyptian motifs and evoking Egyptian goddesses Hathor and Isis. Iconography of the goddess referring to the Rhodian Aphrodite type is discussed in the article.
Panel 110 mm x 55 mm, composed of four separate architectural and figural appliqués, affixed to a flat plaque-like panel by 11 extant circular wooden dowels. Probably from a small box or casket, most likely intended to hold cosmetics, perfume or toilette articles. Carved in deep relief image of Aphrodite inside an architectural naos, combining classical and Egyptian motifs and evoking Egyptian goddesses Hathor and Isis. Iconography of the goddess referring to the Rhodian Aphrodite type is discussed in the article.
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