Stela

Description

Limestone stela with rounded top showing King Thutmose I offering a loaf to Ptah and Sekhmet, and the Gate-Keeper Bakenra praising Ptah: Ancient Egyptian, Lower Egypt, Memphis, Temple of Ptah, late 18th Dynasty, c.1504 -1352 BC

Museum reference

A.1908.361

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Stela

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

Late 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom, Ancient Egyptian

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Limestone

Physical description

Limestone

Collection place(s)

Memphis, Lower Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Excavator: British School of Archaeology in Egypt
Depicted: King Thutmose I

Exhibitions

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

• Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008 (2003 - 2008)
  Royal Scottish Museum

• Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Petrie, Memphis I, p. 7, pl VII

PM II: 833

Cornelius, Izak (2004), The Many Faces of the Goddess: The Iconography of the Syro-Palestine Goddesses, p. 26

Pasquali, Stéphane (2011), Topographie cultuelle de Memphis 1a : Corpus. Temples et principaux quartiers de la XVIIIe dynastie (CENiM 4: Montpellier), p. 8

On display

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