Stela Fragment

39-12-2

From: Egypt

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number 39-12-2
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Egypt
Period New Kingdom | Eighteenth Dynasty
Section Egyptian
Materials Limestone
Inscription Language Hieroglyphic
Description

Limestone. Three vertical columns of incised inscription containing an adoration of Amun and Horakhty by the scribe. Neb-tekhenu and his wife, the "lady of the house, the songstress of [Maat] ka [re]" (Hatshepsut: name partially erased), Teti-seneb. Of the right half only two of the raised hands remain. Below the rounded top of the stela are the following symbols in bas-relief: the Shen symbol between two Wedjat eyes (one eye almost completely broken away).

Credit Line Purchased from John Khayat, 1939

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