Stela Fragment
E13623
From: Egypt | Mit-Rahineh
Curatorial Section: Egyptian
Object Number | E13623 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Egypt | Mit-Rahineh |
Locus | South Portal |
Section | Egyptian |
Materials | Limestone |
Iconography | Tuthmosis III |
Inscription Language | Hieroglyphic |
Description | Upper portion of a round-topped stela with a borderline near the edge. Decoration is executed in raised relief, sunk relief, and incised texts. At the top is a sunk relief winged sun disk, with the details of individual feathers. Below this in the center of the stela are the cartouches of Thutmosisi III, along with his epithets. At the left is a raised relief image of the king, seated, with his right arm on his lap, and his left across his chest holding a crook. He wears the blue crown with uraeus. At the right is a pile of food offerings, rendered in sunk relief. |
Height | 14 cm |
Width | 15.5 cm |
Depth | 4 cm |
Credit Line | The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Mit-Rahineh (Memphis), Egypt; Clarence Stanley Fisher, 1915 |
Other Number | M3106 - Field No SF |
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