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1001. Talbot Stela 2

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Talbot Stela 2
Title:
Early 18th Dynasty Egyptian stela
Scope & Content:
Round topped stela, painted with two registers. Registers 1-2 contain scenes in raised relief. Register 1 is topped with a Sn (shen) ring and wedjat eyes. Below this on the left are a man and a woman seated before an offering table. On the right, a man stands presenting the offerings before the ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century BC
Extent:
1 item

1002. Talbot Stela 3

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Talbot Stela 3
Title:
Early 19th Dynasty Egyptian stela
Scope & Content:
Round topped stela, with 3 registers and a single line of text at the base. Register 1 contains a scene of the deceased owner of the stela (right) adoring Osiris (seated left of middle), with Isis standing behind him. Register 2 contains two separate scenes, which are not quite equally spaced. O...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13th century BC
Extent:
1 item

1003. Talbot Stela 4

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Talbot Stela 4
Title:
Mid 18th Dynasty Egyptian stela
Scope & Content:
Round topped stela, with 3 registers. Registers 1-2 show incised offering scenes and are organised in a symmetrical design. In register 1 the figure on the left is the largest, adoring Osiris wearing the atef-crown, with his son and brother behind him. On the right the figure adoring Osiris is s...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14th century BC
Extent:
1 item

1004. Talbot Stela 5

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Talbot Stela 5
Title:
Mid 18th Dynasty Egyptian stela (reign of Amenhotep III).
Scope & Content:
Small round-topped votive stela showing the owner making offerings to the creator god Ptah, who is based in the city of Memphis. Main person shown: owner/dedicator, nfr-xa - Neferkha.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1390-1352 BC
Extent:
1 item

1005. Talbot Stela 6

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Talbot Stela 6
Title:
17th Dynasty Egyptian stela
Scope & Content:
Section from a stela bearing a hymn to Osiris, broken at top. 17 lines of text survive. This limestone stela shows classical hieroglyphs from 3,600 years ago. It contains a hymn to the god of the netherworld, Osiris, and is currently the oldest object in the British Library collection.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient)
Date Range:
c. 1600 BC
Extent:
1 item

1006. WD1393/1

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1393/1
Title:
Casket containing the miniature portrait of John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune WD1393. The ivory miniature was formerly mounted in the lid of a carved oak casket made from a tree felled on Bethune's estate in 1851, the year of his death
Scope & Content:
Casket containing the miniature portrait of John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune WD1393. The ivory miniature was formerly mounted in the lid of a carved oak casket made from a tree felled on Bethune's estate in 1851, the year of his death
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1851
Extent:
1 Item

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