Statue
Louvre, Paris, C 49
indurated limestone
Fragment of an indurated limestone base of the statue of Ah-mes Pen-Nekhbet with biographical inscription on three sides.
Museum object
Provenance uncertain. W.V. Davies suggests that it once stood in the temple of Nekhbet in Elkab.[1]
Footnotes
^ Davies, A View from Elkab, 401.
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