An Ancient Egyptian Limestone Relief Fragment
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Possibly Late Period, 600-300 B.C. A large limestone relief divided into three horizontal bands. The top band depicts two striding human feet, the middle shows a single row of hieroglyphs and the bottom band shows five columns of hieroglyphs. The middle row may translate to "the Osiris, the one who is strong in the house of Ptah" and the vertical lines of text may translate to "upper Egypt...king of upper Egypt..." with the second to last column refering to the place where people worshipped Ptah in the town of Memphis. With stand. Provenance: New York collection of David Liebert, collected before 1960. Approx. 16 by 20 3/4 in., 40.8 by 52.8 cm.
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