Pillar
| Object Number: | E15412 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Provenience: | Egypt Sedment |
| Locus: | Tomb of Sety |
| Period: | New Kingdom Nineteenth Dynasty |
| Date Made: | 1292 - 1190 BCE |
| Early Date: | -1293 |
| Late Date: | -1189 |
| Section: | Egyptian |
| Materials: | Limestone |
| Technique: | Inscribed |
| Inscription Language: | Hieroglyphic |
| Credit Line: | Distribution from the British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1921 |
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.
Bibliography:
| [Catalogue] Bagh, Tine. 2011. Finds from W.M.F. Petrie's Excavations in Egypt in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.. Copenhagen. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. pg. 189 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 169,170 fig.10.49;172 fig.10.51 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Article] Ranke, Hermann. 1950. "A Guide to the Egyptian Collections". The University Museum Bulletin. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 15. no. 2-3. pg. 21-109 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 99 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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