Inscribed, hieroglyphs: [offering text]
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
Department
African Art
Details
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.