Similarities and ties in Artistic Styles between Arabia and Egypt in the  Hellenistic era”

Al- Senan, Maha

doi:10.21608/jguaa.2019.4126.1024

Similarities and ties in Artistic Styles between Arabia and Egypt in the Hellenistic era”

Document Type : Original Article

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Maha al- Senan

Associate Professor, History of Art, Princess Nourah Bint Abdurahman University(Saudi Arabia)

10.21608/jguaa.2019.4126.1024

Abstract

This study aims to publish terracotta disc kept in the Egyptian Museum, with the motifs on its two faces, through comprehensive descriptive and analytic study of these motifs. As well as we try to date of this disc through comparative between its motifs and other examples bearing the same motifs. The study also answers many questions that come to mind regarding to use of this disk and the function for which it was made, and the connection between it and its decoration. Is this disc used in a ritual or special ceremony? What are these rituals and ceremonies? The Custom of stamping bread and holy cakes was known in Greco-Roman Egypt and continued in late Roman period, there were many causes for stamping the bread and cakes: to take the place of the actual offering, symbolize general religious ideas, possibly connected with the sanctuary or local cult, and serve as additional object in funerary rituals. This stamp back to the Late Roman Period through circular shape and diameter and style of its motifs.

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