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presents a varied collection of funerary stelae. To the immediate left there are some painted Hellenistic examples, with one of a Macedonian cavalryman, a groom running beside the horse (fig.12). |
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Elsewhere, the gravestone of a labourer boasts that he led a "well-ordered life for 85 years" while others, of Roman soldiers, bring to mind the hard-fought battles that took place in and around Alexandria during the various attacks of Caesar or Augustus or Diocletian. Many soldiers of the Empire must have lost their lives here, far from family and homeland. |
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At the far end, to the right and left there is a group of quite remarkable, black basalt statuettes (fig 13). These represent notables from the fayoum, of the little city of sokn-opaiou Nesos, modern Dimeh, whose ruins stand in the desert on the north bank of lake moeris. During the first century of the Roman empire they were priests of the crocodile god and their images were consecrated in the village temple, exactly where they were found. These men were Egyptians as proven by inscriptions engraved on two of the statues, and it is noteworthy that these artifacts present rare examples of traditional Egyptian art falling under the influence, however clumsily, of Greek art. Normally in Egypt it is the other way round. |
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