Plaque

E10755

From: Sudan | Nubia | Buhen

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number E10755
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Sudan | Nubia | Buhen
Locus K8
Period Middle Kingdom | Twelfth Dynasty
Date Made 1938- 1759 BCE
Section Egyptian
Materials Faience
Inscription Language Hieroglyphic
Description

Faience, brown (originally green?). Found on left shoulder of body of the Gardener Merer. Inscribed on one side with the "Golden Horus" name (mn mrwt) of Amenemhat III, three times, and on the other side with "Good god, Lord of the two Lands, Lord of Action," three times. These are not three impressions of the same stamp in either case, but may be the impression of one triple stamp on each side.

Height 11.43 cm
Length 18.41 cm
Width 1.91 cm
Thickness 0 cm
Credit Line The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Nubia, Buhen; D. Randall-MacIver and C. L. Wooley, 1910

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