| Object Number |
40-19-1 |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Provenience |
Egypt | Thinis |
| Locus |
Cemetery |
| Period |
First Intermediate Period |
| Date Made |
2130-1980 BCE |
| Section |
Egyptian |
| Materials |
Limestone | Pigment | Gesso |
| Technique |
Carved | Painted |
| Inscription Language |
Hieroglyphic |
| Description |
Funerary Stela with brightly colored (red, blue, black, yellow) painting carved in sunk relief. The deceased is shown before piles of offerings and offering bearers bringing different types of meat and animals. Four horizontal lines of inscription beside the 32 entries of a menu. |
| Height |
59 cm |
| Width |
71.5 cm |
| Depth |
11.5 cm |
| Credit Line |
Exchange with Kevorkian, 1940 |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
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