The mixture of Egyptian-Roman Civilization in Ancient Mendes (Tell er-Rubca) through three Unpublished Stelae

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Lecturer at the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University (EGYPT)

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This paper aims to publish three tombstones of the ancient archaeological city of Mendes. This city has a great importance in the Pharaonic times that continued during the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. Each tombstone depicts a woman lying on her left side, holding a cup in her right hand, in a banquet scene. The study is consider an evidence that these kind of scenes spread in other cities not only Kom Abou Bellou. The paper will analyses one of these representation in which the deceased used two symbols of the other world in ancient Egyptian religion. They are the God Horus and the God Anubis. They played important role for the deceased in their resurrection. The dates of the tombstones are proved to be belonging to the Roman era.

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