Studies of Roman sculpture works in Egypt, particularly statues of intellectual men and women, are rare. So, the researcher decided to study and publish a statue made of marblepreserved in the museum store in Al-Bahnasa in the Bani Mazar province in Minya Governorate with a record number (F411) for an intellectual woman. Its provenance is unknown.
The study included a detailed description of the statue withthe main focus on the clothing and the used artistic styledespite its missing head. Whetherthestatue belonged to a woman or a man was difficult toknow, yet the studyconcluded that it belonged to a Roman woman.
Moreover, the study attempts tospecify the profession ofthe person the statue belongs to through a detailed analysis, and by comparingit with similar statues. Like previous research, the study relied on dating the statue by examining how it held its robe.The study concludedbypresenting the provenance and history of the statue.
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Taleb Abd El Salam, T. (2023). Unpublished Statue of a Literate Woman from El- Bahnasa Museum Magazine. Bulletin of The Center for Papyrological Studies. (BCPS), 40(1), 55-78. doi: 10.21608/bcps.2023.306512
MLA
Tony Taleb Abd El Salam. "Unpublished Statue of a Literate Woman from El- Bahnasa Museum Magazine". Bulletin of The Center for Papyrological Studies. (BCPS), 40, 1, 2023, 55-78. doi: 10.21608/bcps.2023.306512
HARVARD
Taleb Abd El Salam, T. (2023). 'Unpublished Statue of a Literate Woman from El- Bahnasa Museum Magazine', Bulletin of The Center for Papyrological Studies. (BCPS), 40(1), pp. 55-78. doi: 10.21608/bcps.2023.306512
VANCOUVER
Taleb Abd El Salam, T. Unpublished Statue of a Literate Woman from El- Bahnasa Museum Magazine. Bulletin of The Center for Papyrological Studies. (BCPS), 2023; 40(1): 55-78. doi: 10.21608/bcps.2023.306512