Résumé en anglais

Bibliogr. p. 291-292

The study of the grave-goods of children in Graeco-Roman Egypt can prove disappointing, because of the scattered and fragmentary nature of the evidence available. This is attributable on the one hand to the date of the excavations, which mainly took place in the first half of the twentieth century, and to the looting, ancient and modern, of the necropoleis, and on the other to the widespread custom of collective burial. Nevertheless, we will consider here the grave-goods deriving from the necropoleis of Alexandria, Fayyum and Khargeh Oasis, alongside those depicted on funerary containers of the Roman period (be they sarcophagi, shrouds, painted portraits, or painted plaster masks connected to the mummified deceased).