Digital Giza | Fragment of limestone slab stela

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2155 (?)

Fragment of limestone slab stela. Links Rest eines Opfertisches, unter der Tischplatte Opfergaben (Brot, Bier), rechts Opferliste.

ID

KHM_ÄS_7447
Department

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Classification

Architectural elements-Stelae
Findspot

Possibly mastaba G 2155
Material

Limestone
Credit Line

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Previous Number

KHM_7447
Object Ownership Information

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Period

Old Kingdom
Excavator

Hermann Junker, German, 1877–1962
Object owned by

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Notes

Herk: Gîza, Westfriedhof, G 2155 (?) = VIIInn = G 4870), Grabung Junker 1912 Erwerb: 1913 inventarisiert; Inv.Nr. 7434–7449 sind Geschenk der Wiener Akad. d. Wissenschaften aus den Ausgrabungen bei Gizeh hinter der großen Pyramde (im Westen) von Junker 1912. Dias: Ektachrom Kitlitschka 1993; Ektachrome KHM Comp.Nr. 6927, 14296, dig.; NegNr-1: III 27945, Vorderseite, III 27946, Hinterseite, Kitlitschka 1994,
Remarks

Gift of the Vienna Academy of Sciences, 1913.

Jánosi, Peter. "Der Tote vor dem Opfertisch. Die Opferplatten von Giza. Besprechung des Buches Slab Stelae of the Giza Necropolis von Peter Der Manuelian." Sokar 10 (1. Halbjahr 2005), pp. 19, 22.

Manuelian, Peter Der. Slab Stelae of the Giza Necropolis. Publications of the Pennsylvania–Yale Expedition to Egypt 7. New Haven and Philadelphia: Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2003, pp. 22-23, pls. 21-22, p. 89, fig. 125.

Hermann Junker
- Type Excavator
- Nationality & Dates German, 1877–1962
- Remarks Egyptologist, Director of German-Austrian expedition to Giza, 1911–1929. Published 12 volumes of final excavation reports from Giza expedition. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.

Fragment of limestone slab stela