Publication and Study of a Rare Terracotta Piece from Naucratis Preserved in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Mustafa Muhammad Qandil Zaied*
Citation : Mustafa Muhammad Qandil Zaied, Publication and Study of a Rare Terracotta Piece from Naucratis Preserved in the Egyptian Museum in CairoInternational Journal of History and Cultural Studies 2019, 5(2) : 30-38.
This paper aims to shed the light on a rare terracotta figurine at Gallery No. 39 in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The artistic features of the figurine clearly suggest that it goes back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras. The most eye-catching feature of this terracotta is that it has never been studied or published before. Furthermore, this piece was selected carefully by the researcher to represent irrigation which referring to different aspects of daily life at that time. The researcher selected a terracotta of a male depicted by the artist while practicing their professions or carrying tools that refer to the nature of the profession they practice. In fact, this piece was selected because depicting males in the terracotta art was very rare compared to the figurines of women that represented a remarkably common feature of the terracotta art during the Greek and Roman eras, most important of which - of course - are Tanagra figurines.