Stela
E13626
From: Egypt | Mit-Rahineh | Memphis (Egypt)
Curatorial Section: Egyptian
Object Number | E13626 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Egypt | Mit-Rahineh | Memphis (Egypt) |
Locus | South Portal | Strip 100E |
Section | Egyptian |
Materials | Limestone |
Iconography | Ptah | Shrine | Staff |
Inscription Language | Hieroglyphic |
Description | Top portion of a rectangular stela with a cavetto cornice top, and text border around a sunken field. Decoration and texts are exectued in sunk relief. Below the top torus moulding is a horizontal text band which begins in the center with twin sw signs, beginning twin funerary offering formulae. Both offerings are dedicated to Ptah, though that on the left side is partially damaged. Both of these texts continue vertically at the edge of the stela. In the central field is an image of Ptah, standing at the left and facing right. He is in a shrine, has a tassel at his neck, and holds a was-scepter in his hands. A short two column epigraph above his was-scepter gives his name and epithets. The lower portion of his body is eroded away. At the right of the god is an eroded dedicatory text in four columns, read from left to right. |
Height | 60 cm |
Width | 56 cm |
Thickness | 10 cm |
Credit Line | The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Mit-Rahineh (Memphis), Egypt; Clarence Stanley Fisher, 1915 |
Other Number | M4344 - Field No SF |
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