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Egyptian Wooden Coptic Shrine
Egyptian Wooden Coptic Shrine
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5th-7th century A.D. A carved wood shrine of pentagonal form with Egyptian symbols: the royal cobra, uraeus, the sun-disk of Ra, the eye of Ra, together with a phallic symbol of fertility typical of the Graeco-Roman world and of the god Priapus. See Crum, M.W.E., Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire, nos.8001-8741; Coptic Monuments, Le Caire, 1902, panel 8515, for similar decorations. 100 grams, 95 mm (3 3/4 in.). Acquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s. Important North West London collection. The small altar, probably for domestic use, seems to be a synthesis of ancient Egyptian symbolism combined with elements of the Graeco-Roman world. It was made in a late Roman setting, combining religious elements, possibly invoking prophylactic qualities, blessings and fertility on the owner or his family.
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