Stela

E13629

From: Egypt | Mit-Rahineh | Memphis (Egypt)

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number E13629
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Egypt | Mit-Rahineh | Memphis (Egypt)
Locus South Portal | Strip 100mid
Section Egyptian
Materials Sandstone
Description

Round-topped stela with sunk relief decoration. Winged sun disc with uraei at the top. Below this is a register of decoration showing the king at the right, wearing a protruding kilt, Nemes and uraeus. His left arm is raised in praise, and with his right hand he offers a small seated image of Maat on a basket to the gods at the left. In front of the king is a defaced epigraph describing his action of "Giving Maat ..."

To the left of the king is an image of Ptah who stands on a plinth, inside a shrine, facing right. He has a wesekh collar and tassel, and holds a composite was/ankh/djed scepter. To the left of Ptah is a standing image of Sekhmet, who wears a sun disc and uraeus on her head. An epigraph calls her "Sekhmet the Great, Beloved of Ptah [///]."

At the left side of the reigster is the human-headed god Nefertum, who holds a plumed lotus scepter in his left hand, and an ankh in his right.

Below the groundline was an extended text, but it has all been lost through erosion of the surface.

Height 55 cm
Width 42.5 cm
Depth 13 cm
Credit Line The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Mit-Rahineh (Memphis), Egypt; Clarence Stanley Fisher, 1915
Other Number M4376 - Field No SF

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