Les terres cuites gréco-romaines du musée égyptien de l’agriculture. BiGen 42. Epigraphie social life and religion

social life and religion

Margareta Daepp

Band I: Einleitung

metallurgy

It is about knowing the world of the beyond: counting and naming the beings who are there

Les terres cuites gréco-romaines du musée égyptien de l’agriculture. BiGen 42. Epigraphie social life and religionThe collections of the Egyptian Museum of Agriculture (Cairo) include 107 terracottas dating from the Greco Roman period. When they entered the museum between 1932 and 1935, the statuettes were selected around four main themes, in order to illustrate a part of the collections consisting of animal and plant remains: protective deities, animal representations, plant representations and baskets. These figurines, mostly molded, are generally referred to