Lot Essay
Probably from Tell el Muqdam, the Delta city of Leontopolis where Mahes was venerated. For a similar example see no. 106 in Bianchi, et al, Cleopatra's Egypt: Age of the Ptolemies.
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Details
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE STELA
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 305-30 B.C.
Carved in sunk relief, with a winged sun disk with pendant uraei at the domed top, below to the right the figure of a king wearing a kilt, collar and double crown, his arms raised in adoration before an image of a lion, perhaps the god Mahes, standing on a pylon-shaped shrine, and to the left stands a lion-headed deity wearing a kilt, collar and atef-crown, the heiroglyphic inscription reading "living lion," a later Greek graffiti on the shrine
16 1/4in. (41.3cm.) high
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 305-30 B.C.
Carved in sunk relief, with a winged sun disk with pendant uraei at the domed top, below to the right the figure of a king wearing a kilt, collar and double crown, his arms raised in adoration before an image of a lion, perhaps the god Mahes, standing on a pylon-shaped shrine, and to the left stands a lion-headed deity wearing a kilt, collar and atef-crown, the heiroglyphic inscription reading "living lion," a later Greek graffiti on the shrine
16 1/4in. (41.3cm.) high
Provenance
Nicholas Tano, Cairo