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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