Stele

Description

Stela of limestone, rounded top, with shen-sign between two wadjet eyes, above htp-di-nsw prayer in four lines, above the deceased man sits on a chair holding lotus flower before tray of four loaves or jars above four wine jars : Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Hierakonpolis, temple area, Upper Egypt, late 2nd Intermediate Period, c. 1600-1550 BC

Museum reference

A.1956.346

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Stele

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

2nd Intermediate Period, Ancient Egyptian

Style / Culture

2nd Intermediate Period, Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Limestone

Collection place(s)

Hierakonpolis, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Excavator: J. Quibell

Exhibitions

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

References

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. 989

Quibell, J.E. (1900) HIERAKONPOLIS, London, B. Quaritch, pl. 46.6.

Vandersleyen, C. (1971) Les guerres d'Amosis, fondateur de la XVIIIe dynastie. Bruxelles, 57 n. 1, 208 n. 4.

Ilin-Tomich, A. (2011) Нетипичные формы знака [Htp, R4] в надписях Второго переходного периода. In Bolshakov, A. O. (ed.), St. Petersburg Egyptological readings 2009-2010: papers of the conference, in commemoration of Svetlana Ismailovna Hodjash [and] Alexander Serafimovich Chetverukhin. St. Petersburg, 109.

Ilin-Tomich, A. (2011) Changes in the Htp-dj-nsw formula in the late Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period, Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 138, 30 no. 246.

Bussmann, Richard, 'Urbanism and temple religion in Egypt: A comment on Hierakonpolis', Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 100 (2014), 322-337, 316-318.

Hayes, W. C. 1947. “ḤoremkhaꜤuef of Nekhen and his Trip to Iṯ-Towe.” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 33: 9, n.3.

Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom, Version 3 (name 2739; accessed March 3, 2022),https://pnm.uni-mainz.de/3/inscription/2739 doi:10.5281/zenodo.1411391

PM V, 196

On display

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