Stela

E13585

From: Egypt | Mit-Rahineh

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number E13585
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Egypt | Mit-Rahineh
Locus South Portal | Strip100E, sub N rooms
Section Egyptian
Materials Limestone
Iconography Ptah | Shrine
Inscription Language Hieroglyphic
Description

Small round-topped stela with shallow sunk relief and incised texts. Borderline around the edge of the entire piece. Ptah stands in the center of the stela, inside a shrine with plinth. He wears a wesekh and tassel, and holds a combined was / djed scepter. In front of Ptah is an offering table with a jar and lotus flower. Above the flower is a short epigraph naming him as "Ptah, Lord of Heaven, ..."

Height 11.9 cm
Width 7.1 cm
Depth 2.7 cm
Credit Line The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Mit-Rahineh (Memphis), Egypt; Clarence Stanley Fisher, 1915
Other Number M2669 - Field No SF

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