Painted limestone funerary slab with a man controlling a rearing horse, 2nd half of 3rd century

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Painted limestone funerary slab with a man controlling a rearing horse, Hellenistic, 2nd half of 3rd century , Greek, Limestone, paint, Height: 15 1/2 × 10 1/2 × 2 7/8 in. ( × × cm), Miscellaneous-Paintings, During the Ptolemaic period a distinctive type of subterranean tomb for multiple burials proliferated in the cemeteries around the city of Alexandria. Underground chambers cut into the living rock radiated from a central courtyard open to the sky

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Size: 4013px × 5279px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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