Architectural element
decorated block
99.5cm
71.0cm
sandstone
18.0cm
Corner block with representation of Anuket holding the menat necklace towards the king in the atef-crown standing in front of her. Above the necklace, the inscription in column is carved: "recitation: your arms (ḏd mdw ʿwj,k)". The text continues with sign "ḥr" below the necklace. Colours have almost completely faded, only the yellow arm of the goddes, red body with yellow beard of the king and traces of greyish background are visible. The decoration is executed in raised relief.
Excavations performed by Clermont Ganneau, 1907-1910; aquired in 1908.
Museum object
Bibliography:
- Keller, Cathleen A., Roehrig, Catharine H., Dreyfus, Renée, Hatshepsut. From Queen to Pharaoh, New Haven, London 2005, 99-100, no. 49
- Valbelle, Dominique, Satis et Anoukis, Mainz am Rhein 1981, 14-15, Fig(s). 5, 118B, nos. 118, 115
- La vie au bord du Nil au temps des pharaons, Calais 1980, 77, no. 142
- Franco, I., Les grands pharaons et leur oeuvres : Dictionnaire, Paris 2001, 286 (note)
- 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, 60 (Doc. 138a/12), 201, no. 510