Object Number | E13588 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Egypt | Mit-Rahineh |
Locus | South Portal | Strip100E, sub N rooms |
Section | Egyptian |
Materials | Limestone |
Iconography | Ptah | Sekhmet |
Inscription Language | Hieroglyphic |
Description | Upper left corner fragment of a round-topped stela with sunk relief decoration and incised text. At the left is a standing image of Sekhmet who wears a strapped sheath dress, and a sun disc and uraeus on her head. Her eye is deeply drilled, and may have originally been inlaid. In her slightly extended left hand she holds a papyrus scepter, and in her right hand which hangs at her side is an ankh. Two incised columns of text in front of her face identifies her as "Sekhmet the Great, Lady of Heaven." To the right is a standing image of Ptah. He wears a wesekh collar and tassel. As with Sekhmet, his eye is deeply drilled, perhaps indicating that it was originally inlaid. Half of a column of text remains above his head. |
Height | 15.2 cm |
Width | 10.1 cm |
Thickness | 4.6 cm |
Credit Line | The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Mit-Rahineh (Memphis), Egypt; Clarence Stanley Fisher, 1915 |
Other Number | M2674 - Field No SF |
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