Column Fragment

E13558.4

From: Egypt | Memphis (Egypt)

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

Object Number E13558.4
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Egypt | Memphis (Egypt)
Locus Palace of Merenptah | Room 20
Period New Kingdom | Nineteenth Dynasty
Date Made 1292 - 1190 BCE
Section Egyptian
Materials Limestone
Description

Lowest drum of the pastiche column originally given the number E13558B. This drum has the terminal portion of the four columns of text recording the kings birth and throne names. Below this are areas meant to hold inlays representing papyrus and lotus motifs.

Height 137.16 cm
Length 76.2 cm
Width 76.2 cm
Credit Line The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Mit-Rahineh (Memphis), Egypt; Clarence Stanley Fisher, 1924
Other Number E13558B - Original Number | CG2015-9-378 - Found in Collection Number

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