| Object Number |
E13579 |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Provenience |
Egypt | Mit-Rahineh |
| Period |
New Kingdom | Nineteenth Dynasty |
| Date Made |
1292BC-1190BC |
| Section |
Egyptian |
| Materials |
Limestone |
| Iconography |
Ptah | Sekhmet |
| Inscription Language |
Hieroglyphic |
| Description |
Fragment of raised relief decoration showing Ptah seated and holding a scepter with symbols for dominion, life, and stability. A partial column of text in front of Ptah's head records his epithet (Anx-tA.wj). Behind him, the hand of his consort, Sekhmet, holding a papyriform staff. Two partial columns of text give her name as "Sekhmet the Great, Beloved of Ptah, Mistress of Ankh-tawy." |
| Height |
24.2 cm |
| Width |
22 cm |
| Thickness |
10 cm |
| Credit Line |
The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Mit-Rahineh (Memphis), Egypt; Clarence Stanley Fisher, 1915 |
| Other Number |
M2141 - Field No SF |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
| Wegner, Josef W., and Jennifer H. Wegner. The Sphinx That Traveled To Philadelphia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Page/Fig./Plate: 239 Page/Fig./Plate: 126/6.20 |
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| Silverman, David P. Searching for Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Cornell University Press, 1997. Page/Fig./Plate: 46-47 |
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| Thomas, Nancy. The American Discovery of Ancient Egypt. Los Angeles County Museum of Art and American Research Center in Egypt. Page/Fig./Plate: 188/88 |
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| Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings III: Memphis, Part 2. Saqqara to Dahshur. 2nd ed. III. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. Page/Fig./Plate: 860 |
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| Patch, Diana C., and Brendan Hainline. Divine Egypt. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2025. See: p. 155, 304-305. |
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