Architectural element
decorated block
sandstone
Sandstone block with the upper part of wall decoration executed in raised relief. The scene represents the back part of a canopy of Anuket(?) turned right with an inscription in columns turned right. The top of Anuket's crown can be seen. On the left, a restored name of the protecting vulture goddess Nekhbet turned right is preserved. In the upper part a sky strip, a block border and a kheker-frieze are carved. Left upper part erased with a Ptolemaic chisel.
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Bibliography:
- Delange, Élisabeth, 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. 573
- Seidlmayer, Stephan, Landschaft und Religion - Die Region von Aswân, Archäologischer Anzeiger 2006/1, 2006, Fig(s). 4
- Seidlmayer, Stephan, New Rock Inscriptions at Elephantine, Egyptian Archaeology. The Bulletin of the Egypt Exploration Society 14, 1999, 42 [lower right]