Object Number | E13615 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Egypt | Mit-Rahineh |
Locus | South Portal |
Section | Egyptian |
Materials | Limestone |
Technique | Unfinished |
Iconography | Boat | Offering Table | God | Lotus | Worshipper |
Description | Unfinished round-topped stela with winged sun disc and sunk relief decoration. In the top register is the image of the solar barque at the left, facing right, upon a rectangular pool. To the right is an offering table with three lotus flowers above. To the right is an image of the nascent sun god, shown as a child emerging from the lotus, with a horned sun disc on his head. There are five lines intended to separate four columns of texts, but these were never inscribed. In the lower register are column lines for six or seven columns of text which was never inscribed. At the right is a male worshipper who wears a long wig, and long flowing robes. His hands are raised in praise. |
Height | 30 cm |
Width | 23.3 cm |
Depth | 9 cm |
Credit Line | The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Mit-Rahineh (Memphis), Egypt; Clarence Stanley Fisher, 1915 |
Other Number | M2993 - Field No SF |
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