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Limestone relief of a man offering incense

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Title/s	Limestone relief of a man offering incense
Category	architectural element
Name	stelae
Description	man holding censer, fragment
Field Collection	Egypt
Technique Description	painted
Dimensions	height 12 cm width 11.1 cm depth 3 cm
Period	Eighteenth Dynasty New Kingdom
Date	circa 1550 B.C. — 1295 B.C.
Provenance	bequeathed: Gayer-Anderson, Major R.G. 1943 (Filtered for: Antiquities)
Documentation	Martin, G.T. (2005) Stelae from Egypt and Nubia in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, c. 3000BC - AD1150 , Cambridge (Cambs.) : Cambridge University Press (2005) Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press [page: 60]
Material/s	limestone
Accession Number	E.GA.4538.1943 (Antiquities) (Reference Number: 58989; Input Date: 2003-03-25 / Last Edit: 2011-07-12)

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Limestone relief of a man offering incense