stela

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Object Type
Museum number: EA1020
Description: Central portion of a monumental red granite stela; remains of a relief figured scene at the top below which are rows of incised Greek text commemorating a royal visit to the First Cataract in the second year of the joint reign of Ptolemy IX and Cleopatra III and referring to privaleges granted to the priests of the Temple of Khnum; lower part worn and obscured by two rectangular sockets.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 115BC
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Aswan
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 270 centimetres (Height including stone base is 321cm Width including base is 84cm Depth including base is 63.5cm); Width: 56 centimetres (max); Depth: 33 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject
Bibliographic references: Parkinson 1999 / Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment (fig. 9); Inscription / The Collection of Ancient Greek Inscriptions in the British Museum (1066)
Location: On display (G4/B4)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2014 23 Apr-01 Aug, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, 'A History of the World in 100 Objects'
Condition: incomplete - side portions and top removed
Associated names: Named in inscription: Ptolemy IX Soter II; Named in inscription: Cleopatra III
Associated places: Named in inscription: Temple of Khnum
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA1020
Registration number: .1020
Conservation: Treatment: 15 Apr 1999; Treatment: 12 Dec 2013

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