Journal Article

Une Assiette Décorée d'époque Gréco-Romaine Trouvée À Oxyrhynchos

Erroux-Morfin, Marguerite, Parcerisa, Josep Padry

2023

Overview

In 2019, we started the archaeological works in a new sector of the Upper Necropolis of Oxyrhynchus, Sector 36, where works continued during the years 2022-2020 with very important and interesting results. During the 2020 campaign we located several rooms belonging to a new funeral home, number 3, from the Christian-Byzantine period. Here we discovered mud brick structures, with reuse of materials from older periods: limestone blocks with painted decoration, funerary steles from the Roman period, and a ceramic plate decorated with religious scenes on one side as well as inscriptions on the other. This votive plate was broken into several fragments. The humidity of the soil and the rising salt levels had unfortunate repercussions, especially on the hieroglyphs, painted and not engraved, on the surfaces of the plate. But despite its poor state of conservation, it is a very interesting plate because it shows the syncretism between Egyptian and Roman culture.

• Publisher: جمعية تراث مصر
• Subject: العصر المسيحي البيزنطي / اللوحات الجنائزية / المقبرة العليا / النقوش اليونانية