Lintel / portion

Description

Lintel of brown quartzose sandstone, rectangular left-hand portion, originally carved with inscription of Senusret I and later re-carved twice with winged disk and smaller inscription of same king: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Hierakonpolis, Upper Egypt, 12th Dynasty, c. 1965 - 1920 BC

Museum reference

A.1956.349

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Lintel / portion

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

12th Dynasty, Middle Kingdom, Ancient Egyptian

Style / Culture

12th Dynasty, Middle Kingdom, Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Sandstone

Collection place(s)

Hierakonpolis, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Senusret I
Excavator: J. Quibell

Exhibitions

• Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Quibell and Green. (1902) Hierakonpolis II, p. 53, 57.

Adams, B. (1974) ANCIENT HIERAKONPOLIS (Supplement), Wilts: Aris & Phillips Ltd, pp.160,166

Murray, M. (1900) CATALOGUE OF EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITIES, Edinburgh , p.52, cat. 990

Hirsch, E. Kultpolitik und Tempelbauprogramme der 12. Dynastie: Untersuchungen zu den Göttertempeln im Alten Ägypten (Achet A 3; Berlin, 2004), 199, Dok. 60.

Bußmann, R. 2009. Die Provinztempel Ägyptens von der 0. bis zur 11. Dynastie. Leiden: Brill, p. 667

Friedman,R. ‘Hierakonpolis in Edinburgh’, Nekhen News 24 (2012), 26 and illustration on page 17.

Bussman, Richard, 'Urbanism and Temple Religion in Egypt: A Comment on Hierakonpolis', Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 100 (2017), 312.

On display

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