stela
- Museum number
- EA572
- Description
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Rectangular limestone stela from the reign of Senusret I divided into four registers:
1 - Fourteen rows of Hieroglyphic text, top-most in form of cartouche of Senusret I.
2 - Scene of three seated figures and offering-table.
3 + 4 - Rows of figures; row of Hieroglyphic text above each.
- Production date
- 1930BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 103 centimetres
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Thickness: 19 centimetres
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Width: 43 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Stela from Abydos, ANOC 5.1; ANOC 5.2 = EA 581; ANOC 5.3 = EA 562; ANOC 5.4 = EA 461 (statue)
Translation: Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Autobiographies (OBO 84): p.106-108
Freed, R E, 1996 in Fs. Simpson, p.323
- Location
- On display (G62/dc30)
- Condition
- fair - damage to bottom edge
- Acquisition date
- 1839
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA572
- Registration number
- 1839,0921.9
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BS.572 (Birch Slip Number)
