A Funerary Stela from the Egyptian Museum (CCG 1753)

Mohamed, Rasha Farouk El Sayed

doi:10.21608/jealex.2016.196593

A Funerary Stela from the Egyptian Museum (CCG 1753)

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Rasha Farouk El Sayed Mohamed

Assistant Professor -History and Egyptian Archeology- Faculty of Arts Alexandria University

10.21608/jealex.2016.196593

Abstract

The funerary painted limestone stela under study is kept now in the Egyptian Museum, bearing the registration number CCG 1573 (Plate 1). According to the Museum Catalogue, the stela was purchased from Luxor in 1889, its provenance is may be Moaalla, the date of it is broadly Old Kingdom to the Middle Kingdom^{(^[1])}.

* I am grateful to the General Director of the Egyptian Museum for supporting my research on this stela, and for granting me the permission to publish it
([1]) L. Borchardt, Denkmäler des Alten Reiches, Teil II (CG 1542-1808), Kairo, 1964, p. 176; as for the provenance, see: p. 20.

References

([1]) R. Freed, op. cit., p. 326; for examples from the Middle kingdom CCG 2023, 20615, 20747, see: footnotes (23, 25); from Rizeiqat CCG 1597, see: footnote (23); H. Selim, op. cit., pp. 221-223, figs 1-3.

([1]) Goose is so important in ancient Egyptian religion, mythology and funerary offerings. The ancient Egyptians distinguished between several varieties of geese, but ornithologists can not equate with certainty these names with modern species. W. Darby & Others, Food: The Gift of Osiris, Vol. I, London, New York, 1977, pp. 284-286.

([1]) For the foreleg as a joint marked xpS, see: S. Ikram, Choice Cuts: Meat production in Ancient Egypt, OLA, 69, 1995, pp. 50-51, 123, 125 fig. 34, 129.

([1]) Ribs, which are divided into four groups or more, are shown on offering tables or in the hands of offering-bearers, also in the foundation deposits of temples. S. Ikram, op. cit., p. 127.

([1]) For the earliest linguistic record for leek as iAqt from the Sixth Dynasty, and about problem between leek and kurrat, see: L. Keimer, Die Gartenpflanzen im alten Ägypten, II, Herausgegeben von R. Germer, Mainz am Rhein, 1984, p. 59; P. Nicholson, & I. Shaw, op. cit., p. 630.

([1]) For the motif of the lotus flower, its various colors, and its connotations of rebirth, see: Ph. Derchain, Le Louts, La mandragore et le perséa, CdE, 50, 1975, pp. 65-86 ; W. Darby & Others, op. cit., Vol. 2, pp. 620-629, 633.

([1]) For examples of the same horizontal group from the Middle Kingdom see: H. Lagne & H. Schäfer, op. cit., II, Pls XVIII (CCG 20234), XXXII (CCG 20462), XLIX (CCG 20615), particularly from the Twelfth Dynasty, see: W. Budge, HTBM, II, p. 8, PL. 19 (BM 143); for the vertical group, see: W. Budge, HTBM, IV, p. 7, PL. 12 (BM 170); for different kinds of bread, see W. Darby & Others, op. cit., Vol. II, pp. 517ff.