Roman Egypt
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of objects from the Egyptian Roman Period, which date from 30 BC to AD 95. This collection contains domestic material from the Greco-Roman town of Oxyrhynchus. It includes terracotta figurines, wooden double-edged combs, a weaving comb, ivory pins, a slate cosmetic palette and bronze cosmetic implements. There is also a wooden pen case, reed pens with sharpened nibs, a wooden needle case with a lid, two wooden covers for wax writing tablets and fragments of armour. The collection also includes two stone stelae with depictions of Osiris, Isis, Nephthys and Anubis. In addition there is a fragile papyrus that preserves two tax receipts written in Greek, from the Roman village of Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum. The collection contains mummified human and animal remains and linen wrappings, and two rare limewood panel portraits painted in encaustic, which would have been placed on the faces of mummies. Egypt was conquered by the Emperor Augustus and absorbed into the Roman Empire following the suicide of Cleopatra VII, the last of the Macedonian pharaohs, in 30 BC. This Roman Period in Egypt ended in AD 395, when the empire was divided into Eastern and Western empires.
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