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Source Description
The front of this box shows a king making an offering to the crocodile-god Sobek. Above the scene is an inscription in demotic. The box may have been used in temple rituals.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
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4415
label
Chest with Writing
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obj
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object
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8
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4415
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Chest with Writing
description
The front of this box shows a king making an offering to the crocodile-god Sobek. Above the scene is an inscription in demotic. The box may have been used in temple rituals.
provenance
[From the Faiyum]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1st century BCE (Ptolemaic-Roman)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
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en
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Wood
chests
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8
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8
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
28.6
height
30
depth
35.6
dimensionsRaw
H: 11 1/4 x W: 11 13/16 x D: 14 in. (28.6 x 30 x 35.6 cm)
Source extras
cul
Egyptian
inscriptions
[Inscription] in Demotic
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wood
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6182
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EGY
GRC
ROM
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3193
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