Architectural element
decorated block
19.5cm
23.0cm
limestone
Fragment of a limestone block decorated in raised relief. The scene represents a palm tree and a head of a man turned right. Colours disappeared.
Purchased in the Philips auction in Paris in 1905.
Museum object
See also: Global Egyptian Museum.
Archive photo:
Musées d’Art et d’Histoire de la Ville de Genève A 2006-0030-067-0531.
Bibliography:
- Werbrouck, Marcelle, Le temple d’Hatshepsout à Deir el-Bahari, Bruxelles 1949, 69, n. 1
- Lefebvre, Françoise, Van Rinsveld, Bernard, L'Égypte. Des Pharaons aux Coptes, Bruxelles 1990, 82, 102
- Martinez, Philippe, Une expédition pacifique au lointain pays de Pount, Les Dossiers d’Archeologie 187S, 1993, 90
- Ratié, Suzanne, La reine Hatchepsout: Sources et problèmes, Orientalia Monspeliensia 1, Leiden 1979, 151