stela

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Object Type
Museum number: EA258
Description: Round-topped limestone stela divided into four registers: 1 - Three columns of Hieroglyphic text including cartouches of Amenemhat III and IV flanked by representations of Osiris and Anubis in naoi. 2 - Two kneeling figures on the left; Two figures seated on either side of a table on the right. 3 - Three kneeling female figures with offering-tables. 4 - Two kneeling male figures with offering-tables.
Cultures/periods
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Egypt
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 33.50 centimetres; Weight: 7 kilograms; Width: 22.50 centimetres; Depth: 7.50 centimetres
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Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Condition: fair
Subjects
Associated names: Named in inscription: Amenemhat III; Named in inscription: Amenemhat IV; Representation of: Osiris; Representation of: Anubis
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Henry Salt; Purchased through: Sotheby's
Acquisition date: 1835
Acquisition notes: Identified as one of two stelae in lot 292 at 1835 Salt sale, according to Leemans, Lettre a M Francois Salvolini (Leiden 1838), 42.
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA258
Registration number: .258
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: BS.258 (Birch Slip Number)

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