Funerary Stela of Nemesion

Funerary Stela of Nemesion

Lawrence Technological University

May 20, 2019

Aluzzo, Adrienne (photograph)

Single Built Works

Late 2nd century AD

Michigan (state)

Ann Arbor (inhabited place)

Romano-Egyptian

stelae

Dogs

jackals

Front view of funerary stela with standing figure of young man with his arms raised and a dog on either side of him, originally from Terenouthis, Egypt, housed at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology in Ann Arbor, MI. " The scene is within a frame flanked by two columns with papyrus capitals supporting a pediment with akroteria. The stela represents a man standing frontally and raising his arms up as a sign of joy for being accepted by Osiris in the afterlife. He wears a short-sleeved pleated tunic and a mantle drawn across the lower body, folded at the waist and taken over his left shoulder. The hair is arranged in curls. He is flanked by two jackals. Below the standing human figure, there are incised lines which were intended to contain the funerary inscription,"--from The Aspects of Animal Sanctification in the Graeco-Roman Monuments in Egypt, by Hisham Elsayed Abdelazim Aglan, 2013.

limestone

pigment

H. 38.7 cm

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