Stela

E13590

From: Egypt | Mit-Rahineh

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number E13590
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Egypt | Mit-Rahineh
Locus South Portal | Strip100E, sub N rooms
Section Egyptian
Materials Limestone
Iconography Ptah
Inscription Language Hieroglyphic
Description

Narrow round-topped stela, cut down from a larger piece. Decorated with sunk relief, with traces of red pigment and gold leaf. Ptah stands facing right in a shrine, though the top of it has been cut off. He holds a composite was / ankh / djed scepter, and wears a wesekh with tassel. He stands upon a plinth. To the right at the edge of the piece are the traces of a standing male worshipper, facing left. A hes-jar can be seen near the edge, from which pours a stream of water. Toward the bottom of the scene is the angle of the kilt belonging to the male worshipper. There is a portion of a text above Ptah's head, and another below the feet of the worshipper which seems to have originally recorded his name.

Height 38.5 cm
Width 15.5 cm
Depth 5.5 cm
Credit Line The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Mit-Rahineh (Memphis), Egypt; Clarence Stanley Fisher, 1915
Other Number M2680 - Field No SF

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