Painted limestone funerary slab with a man controlling a rearing horse, Hellenistic, 2nd half of 3rd century B.C., Greek, Limestone, paint, Height: 15 1/2 × 10 1/2 × 2 7/8 in. (39.4 × 26.7 × 7.3 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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Painted limestone funerary slab, man controlling, rearing horse, Hellenistic, 2nd half, 3rd century B.C, Greek, Limestone, paint, Height, 15 1/2, 10, 2 7/8, 39.4, 26.7, 7.3 cm, Miscellaneous-Paintings, Ptolemaic period, distinctive type, subterranean tomb, multiple burials proliferated, cemeteries, city, Alexandria, Underground chambers, cut, living rock, radiated, central courtyard, open, sky
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