Su alcune terrecotte da Tell el-Maskhuta

• Maria Cristina Guidotti ^[1] ; Annalinda Iacoviello ^[2]
  1. [1] Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale del CNR
  2. [2] Multidisciplinary Egyptological Mission
• Localización: Aegyptus: Rivista italiana di Egittologia e di Papirologia, ISSN 0001-9046, Vol. 102, Nº. 1, 2022, págs. 31-45
• Idioma: italiano
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  • On Some Terracottas from Tell el-Maskhuta
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  • In this contribution, four terracotta statuettes from Tell el-Maskhuta are presented. In the first part, a Bes statuette, and a female head are described, whose meaning may be related to the Late and Ptolemaic Period domestic religious practices. In the second part, two female figurines are presented. Once called “concubines of the dead”, they are better defined as “fertility female figures”. Interestingly, one of them holds a little monkey. They may be dated to the Late and Ptolemaic Periods.