Door Frame

E10987.2

From: Sudan | Nubia | Buhen

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

Object Number E10987.2
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Sudan | Nubia | Buhen
Locus North Temple | Doorway between rooms E and D
Period Eighteenth Dynasty | New Kingdom
Date Made 1539-1292 BCE
Section Egyptian
Materials Sandstone
Iconography Horus | Min
Inscription Language Hieroglyphic
Description

Sandstone Gateway from the North Temple at Buhen. This doorway was set up by Thury (Twrj), a viceroy of Buhen. The decoration is crude. This fragment is the upper left jamb. On its face is a torus molding, and the beginning of an inscription naming Ahmose I. On the thickness of the jamb is a crudely carved depiction of Thury, holding a branch, standing before a woman. Below this is five lines of text, recording a Htp-dj-nsw formula dedicated by Horus, lord of Buhen, to the Commander of Buhen, Thury.

Height 60.96 cm
Length 0 cm
Width 26.67 cm
Depth 22.86 cm
Credit Line The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Nubia, Buhen; D. Randall-MacIver and C. L. Wooley, 1910

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