Stela

E15998

From: Egypt | Dendereh

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number E15998
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Egypt | Dendereh
Section Egyptian
Materials Sandstone
Iconography Funeral
Inscription Language Demotic
Description

Round-topped stela with a winged sun disk with pendant uraei at the top. Below is the hieroglyph for sky bordering the scene. The scene is a funerary rite showing the deceased on a lion shaped bier being attended to by Anubis who holds a cup. On the left is Nephthys and on the right is Isis both standing in a tradtional mourning pose with their hands to their foreheads. There is a single line of Demotic below the scene.

Height 28.5 cm
Width 24 cm
Depth 7.3 cm
Credit Line Distribution from the Egypt Exploration Fund, William Flinders Petrie, 1898

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