door-plate
- Museum number
- EA41643
- Description
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Inscribed bronze fitting of Amenhotep IV: a plate of bronze with fourteen holes, five of them still containing nails. The front is inscribed with a single line of finely incised left-facing hieroglyphs recording the name and epithets of an Amenhotep, probably Amenhotep IV, in Middle Egyptian.
- Dimensions
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Height: 38 centimetres
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Thickness: 0.30 centimetres
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Width: 8.90 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Inscription subject
royal
- Curator's comments
- This piece was probably a decorative element attached to a wooden door, presumably in a temple or palace building; the phraseology is characteristic of a column of text framing a figured scene, so was presumably part of a larger composition on the door.
Published:
R. Parkinson, ‘ Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment’ (London, 1999), cat 30, p. 108.
Bibliography:
for text see J. Baines,'King, temple, and cosmos: an earlier model for framing columns in temple scenes of the Graeco-Roman Period', in M. Minas and J. Zeidler (eds), 'Aspekte spätägyptischer Kultur: Festschrift fur Erich Winter zum 65. Geburtstag', Aegyptiaca Treverensia 7 (Mainz, 1994), 23-33;
B. Porter & R. Moss, 'Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings' I (Part 2) (Oxford, Clarendon Press), 778.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2011 Jul–Sept, Newcastle, Great North Museum, Pharaoh: King of Egypt
2012 Oct–Jan, Dorchester, Dorset County Museum, Pharaoh: King of Egypt
2012 Feb–June, Leeds City Museum, Pharaoh: King of Egypt
2012 Jul-Oct, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Pharaoh: King of Egypt
2012 Nov– Feb 2013, Glasgow, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Pharaoh: King of Egypt
2013 Mar–Aug, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery , Pharaoh: King of Egypt
2022-2023 13 Oct-19 Feb, London, BM, Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1905
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA41643
- Registration number
- 1905,0710.1