AN INSCRIBED LIMESTONE RELIEF FRAGMENT OF PTAH-MOSE

Details

AN INSCRIBED LIMESTONE RELIEF FRAGMENT OF PTAH-MOSE
LATE DYNASTY XVIII, circa 1350-1300 B.C.
Depicting the figure of Ptah-mose standing in profile to the left, with both arms raised in adoration, wearing a layered wig and double row of beaded collar, his pleated garment with long sleeves and tied below the waist, an incense cone worn on his head, remains of two vertical columns of hieroglyphs to the right giving his title as "[Overseer of the] Royal Harem, Ptah-mose of Memphis", repaired with slight restoration to cheek, mounted

16.3/8 x 11¼ in. (41.6 x 28.4 cm.)

Lot Essay

This relief comes from the opposite door jamb to a relief from the Salt Collection, now in the British Museum (published in M. L. Bierbrier, Hieroglyphic Texts from Egyptian Stelae, The British Museum, London, 1982, pls. 4-5) and which was acquired at Sotheby's in June 1835. Ptah-mose is known from several other monuments, including a stele in the Metropolitan Museum of Art which gives the name of his father as the Military Scribe of the Lord of the Two Lands.

More from Antiquities

View All