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Limestone stela containing a decree by the inhabitants of Bousiris in honor of the strategos Gnaeus Pompeius Sabinus. Part of right side broken off.
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- ID
- EMC_JE_51876
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- Department
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Classification
- Architectural elements-Freestanding stelae and obelisks
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- Findspot
- Sphinx
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- Material
- Hard limestone
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- Dimensions
- H [?]7 x L 58 cm
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- Credit Line
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Cairo Special Register number
- EMC_SR_5/10167
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- Period
- Roman Period, 22-23 CE
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- Excavator
- Émile Baraize, French, 1874–1952
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- Object owned by
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Notes
- Found by Baraize; registered in JE in 1927.
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- Remarks
- RELATD MEDIA: EMC_JE_X_Sp410LR; RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): Emile Baraize; Gnaeus Pompeius Sabinus; RELATED SITE(S): Sphinx
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- Site Name Sphinx Complex
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Hassan, Selim. The Sphinx. Cairo: Government Press, 1949, pp. 234-235.
Modern People
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- Type Excavator
- Nationality & Dates French, 1874–1952
- Remarks French engineer working for the Service des Antiquities who excavated around the Sphinx from 1926-1936.
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- Type Object owned by
