Stela

29-66-622

From: Egypt | Dendereh

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number 29-66-622
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Egypt | Dendereh
Period First Intermediate Period | Ninth Dynasty | Tenth Dynasty | Eleventh Dynasty
Date Made 2130-1938 BCE
Section Egyptian
Materials Limestone
Inscription Language Hieroglyphic
Description

The crudely fashioned lintel is inscribed with the standard funerary epithet “the revered (one)” followed by the name of the owner of the tomb, the latter being illegible due to the poor and sketchily rendered hieroglyphs. The spelling of imahu, “the revered (one),” is anomalous in that it begins with two reed leaves, pointing to a possible scribal error or dialectal variation.

Credit Line The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Dendereh, Egypt; Clarence Stanley Fisher, 1915-1923
Other Number D863 - Field No SF

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