stela
- Museum number
- EA264
- Description
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Limestone stela of Pashed: divided into two sections decorated in sunk relief with incised texts. The upper register, now mostly lost, depicted the god Reshef seated in the centre before an altar piled with offerings on the right. Below, in the second register, are seven columns of text consisting of a prayer to Reshef by the necropolis-workman Pashed who is shown kneeling in adoration on the right. The stela has been broken across the centre with the consequent loss of most of the upper portion of the stone.
- Dimensions
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Height: 29.70 centimetres
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Weight: 10 kilograms
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Width: 29 centimetres
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Depth: 6.90 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
The British Museum, 'A guide to the Egyptian galleries (Sculpture)' (London, 1909), 135 (no. 478);
J. Fulco, 'The Canaanite God Resep' (New Haven, 1976), 8 (no. E17);
B. Porter & R. Moss, 'Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings' I (2)(Oxford: Clarendon Press), ii, 732;
K. A. Kitchen, 'Ramesside inscriptions : translated & annotated. Translations. Vol.4, Merenptah and the Late Nineteenth Dynasty' (Oxford, 2003), p241
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- The stela has been broken across the centre with the consequent loss of most of the upper portion of the stone. The preserved fragment is in good condition with only slight scratches and some discolouration on the surface.
- Acquisition date
- 1843
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA264
- Registration number
- .264
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BS.264 (Birch Slip Number)
