Door Frame

29-66-596

From: Egypt | Dendereh

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number 29-66-596
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Egypt | Dendereh
Period First Intermediate Period | Eleventh Dynasty
Date Made 2081-1938 BCE
Section Egyptian
Materials Limestone
Inscription Language Hieroglyphic
Description

The small limestone fragment belongs to a funerary stela in which a kneeling figure, hunched over, is in the process of grinding grain in a shallow vessel with an elongated brim. Notice the rimmed eye that is typical of Dendera during this period.

Credit Line The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Dendereh, Egypt; Clarence Stanley Fisher, 1915-1923
Other Number D669 - Field No SF

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