Block with priests and priestesses in feast

Architectural element, decorated block

Provenance

Elephantine: temple of Satet, west outer wall

Description

Material(s) sandstone

Sandstone block with decoration executed in raised relief. There are two scenes represented in two registers divided with a line and sky strip: in the upper one three male figures are walking and two female figures are standing, one of them holds the mnjt-necklace in her hand. In the lower register three female figures are shown.

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, 212, no. 600

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