IDENTIFIERS
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id:	51301
accession number:	E.74.1911

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 18 July 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: rectangular fragment, with shrine of Apis bull on a wheeled barque. Showing the Apis bull travelling on a barque: underneath the shire are rollers to enable the heavy weight to move. Priests usually carried statues of gods. Theh bull was seen to be a living embodiment of the god Ptah and so had to be transported as any other god.
title:	stelae

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Antiquities

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/51301





TECHNIQUES
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carved

CATEGORIES
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category: architectural element

DATING
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creation date:	332 - 30
creation date earliest:	332
creation date latest:	30
culture:	Ptolemaic Period


DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 5.6

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 13.5

dimension: Weight
units: kg
value: 2.2

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 22.5



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	L'Egypte Romaine
CITATIONS
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Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae
Roman portraits and Memphis (4)
Topographical bibliography of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts, reliefs and paintings. Vol.3, Memphis : Abû Rawâsh to Dahshûr
The Monuments of the Hellanistic-Roman Period from Egypt
Stelae from Egypt and Nubia in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, c. 3000BC - AD1150
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