Stela Fragment

E13623

From: Egypt | Mit-Rahineh

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number E13623
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Egypt | Mit-Rahineh
Locus South Portal
Section Egyptian
Materials Limestone
Iconography Tuthmosis III
Inscription Language Hieroglyphic
Description

Upper portion of a round-topped stela with a borderline near the edge. Decoration is executed in raised relief, sunk relief, and incised texts. At the top is a sunk relief winged sun disk, with the details of individual feathers. Below this in the center of the stela are the cartouches of Thutmosisi III, along with his epithets. At the left is a raised relief image of the king, seated, with his right arm on his lap, and his left across his chest holding a crook. He wears the blue crown with uraeus. At the right is a pile of food offerings, rendered in sunk relief.

Height 14 cm
Width 15.5 cm
Depth 4 cm
Credit Line The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Mit-Rahineh (Memphis), Egypt; Clarence Stanley Fisher, 1915
Other Number M3106 - Field No SF

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