Stela

Description

Round-topped stela in hard white limestone, carved in low relief showing the owner Nimenkhamun worshipping Re-Horakhty before an altar, the inscription details his roles as the priest of King Shabataka and the God's Wife Shepenwepet I: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, 25th Dynasty, c. 702–690 BC

Museum reference

A.1956.150

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Stela

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

25th Dynasty (Kushite), 3rd Intermediate Period, Ancient Egyptian

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Limestone

Collection place(s)

Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Depicted: Re-Herakhty
Depicted: Ni-menkh-amun
Rhind, Alexander Henry, 1833 - 1863

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

Peter Munro, Die spätägyptischen Totenstelen (1973), p. 197.

Jeremy W. Pope, The Double Kingdom Under Taharqo: Studies in the History of Kush and Egypt (2014), p. 228 n. 288.

Erhart Graefe, Gottesgemahlin des Amun I (1981), pp. 102-3.

On display

national museum of scotland »
level 5 »
world cultures, ancient egypt rediscovered