Stela
E7076
From: Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery
Curatorial Section: Egyptian
| Object Number | E7076 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Meroitic |
| Provenience | Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery |
| Locus | G 140 |
| Section | Egyptian |
| Materials | Sandstone | Pigment |
| Technique | Painted |
| Inscription Language | Meroitic Language |
| Description | Painted sandstone stela. A nude male figure painted in red on a white ground facing left. The left hand holds a black and yellow object, perhaps a wreath, the right hand is advanced. Above the head four whole lines and three half lines of Meroitic inscription. Found face cownwards within the approach of tomb G 140. |
| Credit Line | The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Nubia, Karanog, Aniba Cemetery; D. Randall-MacIver and C. L. Wooley, 1908 |
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