stela
- Museum number
- EA1055
- Description
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Sandstone stela of Setau: this rock relief in the form of a round-topped stela depicts the viceroy of Kush, Setau, on the right pouring a libation over an altar and offering incense to the goddess Renenutet who in the form of a serpent is seated upon a 'neb'-basket on a pedestal. Behind her on the extreme left is a cartouche with the prenomen of Ramses II. All figures are in sunk relief and the texts are deeply incised. The relief is well preserved and there are no traces of colour.
- Dimensions
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Height: 53 centimetres
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Thickness: 15.50 centimetres
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Width: 47 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
The British Museum, 'A guide to the Egyptian galleries (Sculpture)' (London, 1909), 168 (no. 608);
B. Porter & R. Moss, 'Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings' VII (Oxford: Clarendon Press), 141;
W. Helck, ‘Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur’ 3 (1975), 112 (no. 38);
J. Broekhuis. 'De Godin Renenwetet' (1971), 24-5 (no. 31);
K. A. Kitchen, 'Ramesside inscriptions : translated & annotated Translations Vol.3, Ramesses II, his contemporaries' (Oxford, 2000), 109, no. 55 (56).
- Location
- On display (G65)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2003 10 Apr-31 Aug, Barcelona, CaixaForum, Nubia: Los reinos del Nilo en Sudan
2003/4 23 Sep-4 Jan, Madrid, Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundacio, Nubia: Los reinos del Nilo en Sudan
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1887
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA1055
- Registration number
- 1887,0402.1471
