Funerary Stela

29-66-620

From: Egypt | Dendereh

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

Object Number 29-66-620
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Egypt | Dendereh
Locus 052B
Period First Intermediate Period
Section Egyptian
Materials Limestone
Inscription Language Hieroglyphic
Description

Limestone. Complete, large. Overseer of Priests, Merery, and his beloved wife, acquaintance of the king, Beby. Four lines of inscription; below inscription - offerings to Merery and Beby.

Height 78 cm
Width 61 cm
Thickness 17 cm
Credit Line The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Dendereh, Egypt; Clarence Stanley Fisher, 1915-1923
Other Number D860 - Field No SF

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