FIGURINES, SITES ET CONTEXTES DANS L’ÉGYPTE GRÉCO-ROMAINE. ÉTUDES DE CAS PROVINCIAUX: DE TELL EL-HERR À BOUTO
FIGURINES, SITES ET CONTEXTES DANS L’ÉGYPTE GRÉCO-ROMAINE. ÉTUDES DE CAS PROVINCIAUX: DE TELL EL-HERR À BOUTO

Author(s): Pascale Ballet
Subject(s): Archaeology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Tell el-Herr; Buto; archaeological contexts; coroplastic; iconography; multiculturalism
Summary/Abstract: In the wake of the multi-fields aims and methods used by Jolanta, the author is trying to show in this paper the relations between terracotta figurines, contexts, and sites, based on two settlements located in the Eastern and Western Delta in the Graeco-Roman periods, namely Tell el-Herr and Buto. She reveals first the difficulty to get closed contexts, secondly the diversity of the iconographical aspects through the terracotta figurines in a society we can define as multicultural, and finally the porosity of the borders between the so-called Graeco-Roman features and the Egyptian ones. It seems, except in some rare cases, that the use, the type or the “style” of the figurines were interchangeable from the house to the tomb and the production areas, thus making more complex a possible cultural identification of the population which was using these objects.

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