stela
- Museum number
- EA35018
- Description
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Limestone stela: rough with a rounded top, restored from two pieces. The stela bears an inscription in low relief giving the name Nefer, determined with a figure of a dwarf. The surface of the stone has been slightly pitted by weathering and the edges of the stela are chipped.
- Dimensions
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Height: 45 centimetres
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Width: 24 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
W. M. F. Petrie, 'Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties' I, 27, pl.XXXI, 37; pl.XXXV, 37;
British Museum, 'Hieroglyphic Texts from Egyptian Stelae, etc'., I (London), pl.2;
J. Capart, ‘Les Débuts de L’Art, 247, fig. 176 (top left);
P. Kaplony, 'Die Inschriften der Ägyptischen Frühzeit I (Wiesbaden, 1963), 182, 540.
- Location
- On display (G64/dc8)
- Condition
- fair (repaired)
- Acquisition date
- 1900
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA35018
- Registration number
- 1900,1015.47
