stela
- Museum number
- EA68675
- Description
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Sandstone stela of Ramses II: round-topped, crudely carved and depicting Ramesses II on the right, offering ointment jars to the goddess Satet on the left. Between them is an altar on which rests a water-pot cooled by a lotus flower.
- Dimensions
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Height: 50 centimetres
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Weight: 29.40 kilograms
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Width: 35 centimetres
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Depth: 11 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Inscription subject
royal
- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
B. Porter & R. Moss, 'Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings' VII (Oxford: Clarendon Press), 163;
D. Valbelle, 'Satis et Anoukis' (Mainz and Rhein, 1981), 43, no. 325;
W.V.Davies (ed.), 'Egypt and Africa : Nubia from prehistory to Islam' (London, 1991), pl. 14.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- The stela is badly worn with loss to some of the incised texts.
- Acquisition date
- 1976
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA68675
- Registration number
- 1976,0724.129
