| 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
| Dorling Kindersley Limited. History of the World in 1,000 Objects. London: Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2014. Page/Fig./Plate: 38,39 |
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| Horne, Lee C. Introduction to the Collections of The University Museum. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1985. Page/Fig./Plate: 20/6 |
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| Fleming, Stuart J., David P. Silverman, David B. O'Connor, and Bernard Fishman. The Egyptian Mummy, Secrets and Science. The University Museum, 1980. Page/Fig./Plate: 16 |
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| Ranke, Hermann. "A Guide to the Egyptian Collections." The University Museum Bulletin 15, no. 2-3. (1950): 21-109. See: p. 35, fig. 18 |
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| Ranke, Hermann. "An Egyptian Tombstone From A Period of Transition." The University Museum Bulletin 13, no. 3. ( Jun 1948): 25-29. Page/Fig./Plate: 25-29 |
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