Object Number | E15412 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Egypt | Sedment |
Locus | Tomb of Sety |
Period | New Kingdom | Nineteenth Dynasty |
Date Made | 1292 - 1190 BCE |
Section | Egyptian |
Materials | Limestone |
Technique | Inscribed |
Inscription Language | Hieroglyphic |
Description | Column with a rectangular section with the corners cut off to make it octagonal; the top part is a simple ‘capital’. The sides are inscribed with a hetep-di-nsw formula where the tomb owner Sety invokes various deities. Sety lived during the reign of Ramses II and was Royal Scribe, General, Chief of the King’s Retinue and Royal Envoy to Every Land. |
Credit Line | Distribution from the British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1921 |
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