Object Number | E13619 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Egypt | Mit-Rahineh |
Locus | South Portal | Strip 100mid, sub |
Section | Egyptian |
Materials | Limestone |
Iconography | Ptah | Shrine | Worshipper |
Description | Roughly carved round-topped stela with sunk relief, and incised texts. At the left stands a worshipper, facing right. He has a shaved head, and wears a long kilt. his hands are raised in praise. There may have been an inscription above his head, but it is worn away. At the right is an image of the got Ptah, who stands upon a plinth inside a shrine. The plinth of the god floats above the groundline upon which the worshipper stands. Ptah has a tassel and holds a combined was/ankh/djed scepter. His name appears in front of his knees between his body and the scepter. |
Height | 32 cm |
Width | 20 cm |
Credit Line | The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Mit-Rahineh (Memphis), Egypt; Clarence Stanley Fisher, 1915 |
Other Number | M2881 - Field No SF |
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