Block with a vulture and the royal titulary

Architectural element, decorated block

Provenance

Elephantine: temple of Satet, Room A, east wall

Description

Material(s) sandstone

Sandstone block with the upper part of a scene decoration executed in raised relief. The scene represents the vulture Nekhbet with titles partly preserved turned right and the royal protocol beneath. In the left lower corner the scene is erased with the Ptolemic chisel.

Jadwiga Iwaszczuk

Bibliography

Delange Élisabeth (ed.), Les fouilles françaises d'Éléphantine (Assouan), 1906-1911. Les archives Clermont-Ganneau et Clédat, vol. 2 – Planches, Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 46, Paris 2012, 209, no. 578

Project was funded by the National Science Centre Poland granted on the basis of the decision no. DEC-2012/05/N/HS3/01733