Coptic. <em>Funerary Stela with Male Figure</em>, ca. 500–600 C.E. or later. Limestone, pigment, 14 3/4 x 11 7/16 x 4 1/4 in. (37.4 x 29 x 10.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 40.301. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 40.301_PS2.jpg)

Coptic. Funerary Stela with Male Figure, ca. 500–600 C.E. or later. Limestone, pigment, 14 3/4 x 11 7/16 x 4 1/4 in. (37.4 x 29 x 10.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 40.301. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 40.301_PS2.jpg)

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Funerary Stela with Male Figure

Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

In this stela, an oddly proportioned naked male figure stands within a columned structure, reaching up to touch an ornamented laurel wreath on his head. In his other hand, he holds a laurel sprig. A Greek inscription along the roof line reads “Olympios, twenty-eight years of age.” This name and the laurel leaves suggest that the owner was a pagan. But the ankh-cross above the capital on the right suggests that this stela may later have been reused for a Christian burial.

CULTURE Coptic

MEDIUM Limestone, pigment

Place Made: Egypt

DATES ca. 500–600 C.E. or later

PERIOD Late Antique Period

DIMENSIONS 14 3/4 x 11 7/16 x 4 1/4 in. (37.4 x 29 x 10.8 cm) (show scale)

INSCRIPTIONS Coptic inscription: "Olympios, 28 years of age" or “Olympio, rise in eternal life!”

COLLECTIONS Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

ACCESSION NUMBER 40.301

CREDIT LINE Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund

MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view

CAPTION Coptic. Funerary Stela with Male Figure, ca. 500–600 C.E. or later. Limestone, pigment, 14 3/4 x 11 7/16 x 4 1/4 in. (37.4 x 29 x 10.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 40.301. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 40.301_PS2.jpg)

IMAGE overall, 40.301_PS2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2007

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