IDENTIFIERS
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id:	63411
accession number:	E.SS.37

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 23 April 2019

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: round topped stela, with  two wedjat eyes on either side of a shen sign; below is a Htp-di-nsw of Ptah and Osiris, inscribed for Snbwy (Senebuy) who held high priestly titles, including 'chief priest of his god', 'lector priest', as well as 'the great controller of craftsmen of the Lord of All' (title held by the High Priest at Memphis) and 'one whose coming to the temple is awaited on the day of the rising of Sothis', referring to celebrations at the beginning of the new year; below the inscription is Senbuy (centre) with his wife, Nubemheb (left) and his son Ra-Seth (right); the faces and feet of the figures, Senebuy's left wrist and Ra-Seth's elbow have been deliberately damaged, as has the Seth-hieroglyph in the son's name
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/63411





TECHNIQUES
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carved

CATEGORIES
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category: architectural element

DATING
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creation date:	1773 - 1648
creation date earliest:	1773
creation date latest:	1648
culture:	13th Dynasty
culture:	Middle Kingdom


DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 4

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 34

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 18.5



CITATIONS
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Three monuments from Memphis in the Fitzwilliam Museum
Some Remarks on the God Amun
Topographical bibliography of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts, reliefs and paintings. Vol.3, Memphis : Abû Rawâsh to Dahshûr
Stelae from Egypt and Nubia in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, c. 3000BC - AD1150
The Political Situation in Egypt During the Second Intermediate Period
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IMAGES

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