This funerary portrait is of a woman from the city of Palmyra. Palmyra is well-known for this style of relief portraiture, and there are over 3,000 of these funerary reliefs existing today. These reliefs were most likely mass-produced in local workshops, and the final...
This limestone statue has the face of a falcon and body of a crocodile, representing the god Soknopaios. Soknopaios was an important creator deity for the Egyptians, whose name means “Sobek of Dimeh in the Fayum.” Crocodile deities were popular throughout...
A relief fragment made of limestone that depicts the Egyptian god Serapis. The worship of Serapis was made popular by Ptolemy I Soter, and Serapis is often associated with the god Osiris-Apis. Serapis was further Hellenized to correspond to Zeus by Greek traders and...
