Stela

E7076

From: Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number E7076
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Meroitic
Provenience Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery
Locus G 140
Section Egyptian
Materials Sandstone | Pigment
Technique Painted
Inscription Language Meroitic Language
Description

Painted sandstone stela. A nude male figure painted in red on a white ground facing left. The left hand holds a black and yellow object, perhaps a wreath, the right hand is advanced. Above the head four whole lines and three half lines of Meroitic inscription. Found face cownwards within the approach of tomb G 140.

Credit Line The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Nubia, Karanog, Aniba Cemetery; D. Randall-MacIver and C. L. Wooley, 1908

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