Exhibition and Research on the Terracotta Warriors Preserved in the Cairo Museum

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  • Mustafa Muhammad Qandil Zaied History of Ancient civilization King Khalid University. Faculty of Humanities, KSA & Classical Archaeology Ain Shams University, Faculty of Arts, Egypt

Keywords:

Terracotta; Grotesque; Kyphosis — Old Man; Lantern; Roman Era; Faiyum.

Abstract

This research paper aims at spotting light on the terracotta of kyphosis oldman, Registry No. 33425, Height: 13 cm. from Qasr Al Banat[ Located in south-west of Al-Faiyum is Qasr Al-Banat, site of Euhemeria. It is originally built on a series of low mounds some kilometers east Quarun’s Castle and southwest Lake Moeris. Excavates in the region discovered a small temple for worshipping Sobek and Osiris. The city gained a great reputation during the Ptolemaic and Roman eras. In fact, an inscription was discovered that is dated at the reign of Ptolemy XI and his wife. Moreover, a considerable number of papyri and Greek ostraca were excavated there along with some ], preserved at the Gallery No. 39 in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

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Published

2022-03-31

How to Cite

Mustafa Muhammad Qandil Zaied. (2022). Exhibition and Research on the Terracotta Warriors Preserved in the Cairo Museum . ournal of nnovation in ocial cience, 3(1), 9–17. etrieved from http://8.218.148.162:8081/JISS/article/view/35

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