stela
- Museum number
- EA205
- Description
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Funerary stela of Hapu: limestone stela with a cavetto cornice. A crudely incised scene shows the deceased seated before an offering table with a figure on the other side offering bread. The hieroglyphic text contains the offering formula and gives his name as 'Hepu, begotten of. . .', but the name of his parent is illegible due to the clumsy carving. Below is a Middle Egyptian offering formula for his relatives. There are traces of pigment (blue and black) in the incised signs, and on the figure (red).
- Dimensions
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Height: 45 centimetres
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Weight: 14 kilograms
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Width: 28.50 centimetres
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Depth: 7.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The poor workmanship of scene and text is presumably due to a factor such as comparative poverty or provincialism.
Bibliography:
B. Porter & R. Moss, 'Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings' V (Oxford: Clarendon Press), 96.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- fair
- Acquisition date
- 1834
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA205
- Registration number
- .205
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BS.205 (Birch Slip Number)
