Relief

E222

From: Egypt | Tarraneh

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number E222
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Ptolemaic
Provenience Egypt | Tarraneh
Locus Hathor Temple
Period Ptolemaic Period | Thirty-Third Dynasty
Date Made 305 - 30 BCE
Section Egyptian
Materials Limestone
Iconography Cartouche | Titulary | Sun Disk
Inscription Language Hieroglyphic | Hieroglyphic
Description

Raised relief fragment from the Ptolemy I Temple of Hathor of Mafket. A border at the top of the scene consists of two raised relief bands. At the extreme left of the scene is a vertical border belonging to a text column, now lost. To the right of this is a sun disc with a double uraeus. From the snakes hang ankh and was signs. Below the sun disc is the epithet "The Behdite, Lord [...]. At the left of the scene are the two Cartouches of Ptolemy I Soter, facing right: "King of Upper and Lower Egypt (Setepenre-Meryamun)|, Son of Re, Lord of Appearances (Ptolemy)|." Traces of color.

Credit Line Distribution from the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1890
Other Number ES222 - Other Number

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