A ROMANO-EGYPTIAN TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A FEMALE OFFRANT, seated with her legs drawn up on a divan, her arms outstretched, below her a three-legged offering table or stool with various foodstuffs (sacred meal), she wears wide garlands in her hair and as a necklace, her tunic with painted red border at the sleeves and hem, 2nd Century B.C./A.D., from the Fayoum | Christie's

Lot 83

A ROMANO-EGYPTIAN TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A FEMALE OFFRANT, seated with her legs drawn up on a divan, her arms outstretched, below her a three-legged offering table or stool with various foodstuffs (sacred meal), she wears wide garlands in her hair and as a necklace, her tunic with painted red border at the sleeves and hem, 2nd Century B.C./A.D., from the Fayoum

Details

A ROMANO-EGYPTIAN TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A FEMALE OFFRANT, seated with her legs drawn up on a divan, her arms outstretched, below her a three-legged offering table or stool with various foodstuffs (sacred meal), she wears wide garlands in her hair and as a necklace, her tunic with painted red border at the sleeves and hem, 2nd Century B.C./A.D., from the Fayoum
6 1/8in. (15.5cm.) high

Provenance

Fouquet collection

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
P. Perdrizet, Les Terres Cuites Grecque d'Egypte de la Collection Fouquet, Strasbourg, 1921, no. 336, p. 123, pl. LXXXI

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