Stela Fragment
Object Number: | 39-12-2 |
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Current Location: | Collections Storage |
Provenience: | Egypt |
Period: | New Kingdom Eighteenth Dynasty |
Section: | Egyptian |
Materials: | Limestone |
Inscription Language: | Hieroglyphic |
Credit Line: | Purchased from John Khayat, 1939 |
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).
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