Stela
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin, ÄMP 32259
40.0cm
61.0cm
limestone
Limestone stele with flat edge surrounding the scene in the centre. The composition consists of two registers. In the upper register two scenes are represented. In the left one queen Ah-mes turned left is offering wine to goddess Hathor standing on a podest as a cow in front of an offering table and turned right. The right scene shows Hatshepsut embraced by Horus Behdeti. Cartouche of Hatshepsut is erased. In the lower register two officials are praying to the Hathoric emblem represented in the middle. Above their heads on both sides two inscriptions are incised in columns. The stela is broken in the lower part.
Old number: Ägyptisches Museum der Staatlichen Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin 3/71, acquired in 1971.
Museum object
According the seller the stela comes from Gebelein, but gods represented on stela are these from Edfu.
Bibliography:
- Grimm, Alfred, Schoske, Sylvia, Hatschepsut KönigIN Ägyptens, Schriften der Ägyptischen Sammlung 8, München 1999, 52, no. 2
- Lipińska, Jadwiga, Dolińska, Monika, Aksamit, Joanna, Geheimnisvolle Königin Hatschepsut. Ägyptische Kunst des 15. Jahrhunderts v. Ch., Warschau 1997, cat. no. 16
- Wildung, Dietrich, Zwei Stelen aus Hatschepsuts Frühzeit, [in:] Festschrift zum 150jährigen Bestehen des Berliner Ägyptischen Museums, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Mitteilungen aus der Ägyptischen Sammlung VIII, Berlin 1974, 255-268, Pl(s). 35, Fig(s). 1