Long Narrow Rectangular Section of a Cornice, between 2134 and 2040 BCE

  • Egyptian

Limestone

  • Overall: 4 1/4 × 18 5/8 × 4 1/8 inches (10.8 × 47.3 × 10.5 cm)

Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1899

1990.212.4

Inscribed, hieroglyphs: [offering text]

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)

Egyptian, Long Narrow Rectangular Section of a Cornice, between 2134 and 2040 BCE, limestone. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1899, 1990.212.4.