Stone stela with hieroglyphics and figures.

Collection type: Object
Description: Stone stela with hieroglyphics and figures.
Long description: Stone stela with hieroglyphs and figures. At the top are three rows of hieroglyphs, then a panel depicting a person kneeling, a person standing and a person sitting on a seat, then a panel with two people kneeling and two people standing, then a panel with one person kneeling and three standing.
Geographical reference: Egypt
Africa > Northern Africa > Egypt
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Ancient Egyptian, uncertain
Date collected: By 1874
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Stone, Process Carved
Dimensions: Width: max 210 mm, Length: max 347 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.98.1 Other numbers: 1975
Research and responses: This object was examined by Dr Christina Riggs, University of East Anglia, as part of the Fell Fund project 'Characterizing the World Archaeology Collections'. She thought that it might be a fake, and is certainly not Greek or Roman as claimed in the accession book. [AS 16/02/2010]

Search