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Category |
architectural element
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Name |
stelae
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Description | painted, with deceased before Horus |
Field Collection |
Luxor Egypt |
Technique Description | coloured |
Dimensions |
height 22.2
cm
width 18
cm
depth 3
cm
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Period | Eighteenth Dynasty
New Kingdom
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Provenance |
bequeathed:
Gayer-Anderson, Robert Grenville, Major 1949 (Filtered for: Antiquities) |
Inscriptions/Marks | -
inscription
Position: below sundisk and above and between figures
Method: painted
Content: Htp di nsw [ra-Hr-Axty xnty?] imnty di.f Htpw snTr <n> wab Hmw n pr mwt iw.f-aA sA pA-di-mwt
Description: Hieroglyphic inscription in vertical columns from left to right; the first three columns are written retrograde-style
Translation: A boon which the King gives (to) [Re-Harakhty] foremost of the West, that he may give provisions and incense (to) the wab priest and carpenter of the temple of Mut, Iufaa, son of Padimut
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inscription
Position: below upper inscription, in front of Re-Harakhty's flail`
Method: painted
Content: dwA nTr
Description: two large hieroglyphs, the nTr sign above the dwA
Translation: Adoring the god
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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: 116-7]
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Material/s |
wood |
Accession Number | E.GA.119.1949 (Antiquities)
(Reference Number: 61846; Input Date: 2003-03-25 / Last Edit: 2011-07-13) |
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