Stela

Cippus

81-22-4

From: Egypt

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number 81-22-4
Current Location On Loan
Provenience Egypt
Period Late Period | Twenty-Sixth Dynasty
Date Made 664 - 525 BCE
Section Egyptian
Materials Limestone
Iconography Horus | Serpents | standards | Bes
Inscription Language Hieroglyphic
Description

Top of stele. Child Horus, in high relief, is holding scorpions, serpents and animals flanked by standards. Head of Bes is above Horus. Back has inscriptions on five registers and a scene in two upper registers with windged sun disc above. The sides and top are also inscribed.

Height 19 cm
Width 15.5 cm
Depth 4 cm
Credit Line Gift of Jay J. Dugan, 1981

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