Details
Artist | Egyptian |
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Title |
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Date | between 2134 and 2040 BCE |
Medium | Limestone |
Dimensions | Overall: 10 3/8 × 15 × 3 inches (26.4 × 38.1 × 7.6 cm) |
Credit Line | Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1899 |
Accession Number | 1990.213 |
Department | Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas |
Not On View |
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Inscriptions | Inscribed, hieroglyphs: [translated: [offerings of 1000] libations of water, 1000 of bread, 1000 of beer, 1000 of alabaster (jars), 1000 of oxen and fowl for Shen-sethi.] |
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Provenance
excavated from tomb of Shen-sethi (Dendereh, Egypt);
1897-98, excavated by Flinders Petrie;
1899, gifted by the Egypt Exploration Fund;
1990-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1897-98, excavated by Flinders Petrie;
1899, gifted by the Egypt Exploration Fund;
1990-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)