Object

Accession No

1951.555

Description

Fragment of the left-hand part of the upper section of a stela. The major figure is a seated human-headed goddess, the local patroness Nekhbet, who is holding a long w3s-sceptre. Behind her is a ram's head, mounted upon a cavetto-corniced pedestal, wearing a sun disc and a uraeus and labelled 'Amun of the Lake'. Only a small portion of a lower register is preserved. On the far left a moon lies above the very top of a rounded head, probably a baboon. Below the goddess is a double-crowned figure.

Place

Africa; North Africa; Egypt; El-Kab

Period

New Kingdom XVIII Dynasty XIX Dynasty

Source

Spiegelberg, Wilhelm [excavator]; Green, Frederick William [donor]; Jesus College

Department

Arch

Reference Numbers

1951.555

Cultural Affliation

Material

Stone; Limestone

Local Term

Measurements

Events

Context (References)
Ref. Plate: 4
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Other owners)
Bequested to MAA by F.W. Green.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked 'EL KAB'.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Field collection)
Found by Wilhelm Spiegelberg in February 1896 at the desert temple of Amenophis III, El-Kab.
Event Date 1896
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Spiegelberg, W. 1926. Zeitschrift fur agyptische sprache und altertumskunde. Vol. 62, pp. 25-26.
Event Date 1926
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (References)
Porter, Bertha and Rosalind Moss. 1937. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings. Vol V: Upper Egypt. Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 189.
Event Date 1937
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
A limestone fragment of a stela. The top left corner only survives. This stela is carved with a seated figure of a goddess, behind which is the deity Amun in the form of a ram's wearing a solar disc.
Event Date 1951
Author: maa

Context (References)
Dodson, Aidan. 1992. 'Stelae of the Middle and New Kingdoms in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge' in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 78, pp. 274-279, Pl. XXVIII (2), fig. 2.
Event Date 1992
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Fragment of the left-hand part of the upper section of a stela. The major figure is a seated human-headed goddess, the local patroness Nekhbet, who is holding a long w3s-sceptre. Behind her is a ram's head, mounted upon a cavetto-corniced pedestal, wearing a sun disc and a uraeus and labelled 'Amun of the Lake'. Only a small portion of a lower register is preserved. On the far left a moon lies above the very top of a rounded head, probably a baboon. Below the goddess is a double-crowned figure. (see Dodson, p. 275-276)
Event Date 1992
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
Dodson notes that Spiegelberg dated the piece to the Nineteenth Dynasty but it could be slightly earlier (p. 278), so both have been added to the Period field.
Event Date 27/2/2014
Author: Imogen Gunn

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