Sulkis’ Tophet - VI: Orientalizing stelae.
Female deity between columns supporting a decorated architrave.
Egyptian style frameworks were used to embellish the stelae. The columns and pillars framing the central characters become more elaborate, and embellishments of cobra snakes are carved on the architraves decorated. Another quite common type of figure holding the Egyptian sign of life (ankh) in his right hand makes its appearance in Sulcis Tophet.
Funerary stele
Sulkis Tophet
Late V - IV century BC BC
Sant’Antioco, Museo Archeologico
Sulkis’ Tophet - VI: Orientalizing stelae.
Female deity between columns supporting a decorated architrave.
Egyptian style frameworks were used to embellish the stelae. The columns and pillars framing the central characters become more elaborate, and embellishments of cobra snakes are carved on the architraves decorated. Another quite common type of figure holding the Egyptian sign of life (ankh) in his right hand makes its appearance in Sulcis Tophet.
Funerary stele
Sulkis Tophet
Late V - IV century BC BC
Sant’Antioco, Museo Archeologico