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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