Stela
29-87-469
Location: On Display in the Ancient Egypt in Watercolors
From: Egypt | Dra Abu El-Naga
Curatorial Section: Egyptian
| Object Number | 29-87-469 |
| Current Location | Ancient Egypt in Watercolors - On Display |
| Provenience | Egypt | Dra Abu El-Naga |
| Locus | debris above U.C. 288 |
| Period | Third Intermediate Period |
| Date Made | 1069-644 BCE |
| Section | Egyptian |
| Materials | Limestone |
| Inscription Language | Hieroglyphic |
| Description | Fragment of a round-topped stela. The upper register has a depiction of a ba-bird standing at the left, with arms raised in worship of a boat to the right. In the lower register there is a seated falcon-headed god, labeled "Re-Herakhte, the Great God." To the right is a standing male presenting a cup above an offering table. He is labeled "The Chief Reader Djedkhonsuiuefankh, triumphant, the son of the Chief First Reader Pakhered....." Below and associated with the woman standing at the right is the text "The lady of the house, Ankhy......" See 0--0146 |
| Height | 17.78 cm |
| Width | 19.92 cm |
| Depth | 4.76 cm |
| Credit Line | The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Drah abu el Naga (Thebes), Egypt; Clarence Stanley Fisher, 1921-1923 |
| Other Number | 1898 - Other Number |
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