stela
- Museum number
- EA1183
- Description
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Limestone stela of Amenemwia: a round-topped stela divided into three registers with figures in sunk relief and incised texts. In the upper register the commander of the 'mškbyw' of the ship's contingent Ramses III, beloved of Sekhmet, Amenemwia, called Kʒr, kneels on the right in adoration of Osiris who is enthroned in the centre and behind whom stand Horus and Isis. In the second register two women and one man kneel in an attitude of worship: the lady of the house and chantress of Preʿ, Tʒ-bw-bʒ, his mother, the chantress of the lady of the sycamore, Mwt-m-wỉʒ, and his paternal grandfather, the keeper of secrets of the temple of Ra, 'lnḥr(t)-nḫt . In the third register four men stand in adoration: his father, the ỉt nṯr priest and keeper of secrets of the temple of Merenptah in the temple of Ra, Ḥwy, his brother, the first charioteer of His Majesty, Pʒ-Rʿ-m-ḥb, his brother, the King's Son (?), My, and his brother, the wʿb-priest of the temple of Ra-Horakhty, Pʒ-ỉww. Apart from the loss of the top right corner and several gouges and black blotches on the surface, the stela is well preserved. There are no traces of colour.
- Dimensions
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Height: 56 centimetres
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Weight: 23 kilograms
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Width: 36 centimetres
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Depth: 7 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
The British Museum, 'A guide to the Egyptian galleries (Sculpture)' (London, 1909), 193 (no. 701);
K.A. Kitchen, 'Ramesside Inscriptions' Vol. 5 (Oxford: Blackwell Press), 396.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1894
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA1183
- Registration number
- 1894,0331.16
