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stela(Egyptian ?)

Object Type: stela (Egyptian ?)
Museum number: 1888,0601.35
Description: Stela carved from limestone, showing in relief a funerary banquet with snake and horse head.
Cultures/periods: Ptolemaic
Production date: 200BC-25BC
Production place: Made in: Egypt
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Egypt Exploration Fund
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Naukratis
Materials: limestone
Technique: carved
Dimensions: Height: 38.10 centimetres; Width: 52.07 centimetres
Curator's comments: Gardner lists this as well as another grave stela as having been ‘found last year’ but not within ‘the limits of the ancient city’ (Gardner 1888: 22).
Bibliographic references: Sculpture / Catalogue of Greek Sculpture in the British Museum (728); Gardner 1888 / Naukratis II (p. 22-3); Villing et al. 2013-2025 / Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt (CC.06)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Fair
Subjects: feast/banquet; funeral/funerary rite; reptile; horse/ass
Acquisition name: Donated by: Egypt Exploration Fund
Acquisition date: 1888
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1888,0601.35