Stela
Tablet
93-7-1
Location: On Display in the Ancient Egypt: Discovery to Display
From: Egypt | Thebes (uncertain) (Egypt)
Curatorial Section: Egyptian
| Object Number | 93-7-1 |
| Current Location | Ancient Egypt: Discovery to Display - On Display |
| Provenience | Egypt | Thebes (uncertain) (Egypt) |
| Period | Late Period | Twenty-Sixth Dynasty |
| Date Made | 664 - 525 BCE |
| Section | Egyptian |
| Materials | Wood | Pigment |
| Technique | Painted |
| Iconography | Sun Hymn | Re` | Atum |
| Inscription Language | Hieroglyphic |
| Description | Painted Wooden Stele decorated in three registers. Lunette: Sun disk with Pendant uraei labeled "The Behedite, Lord of the Sky". Central register shows the deceased, Nehemsumut (son of Khonsuemsaf and Ruru, adoring Re (left and Atum (right) in parallel scenes. Below there is a text in 2 columns consisting of seven lines each. The text is a Sun Hymn. |
| Height | 35.5 cm |
| Width | 25 cm |
| Thickness | 3 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Westtown School, 1993 |
| Other Number | 8859 - Other Number |
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