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Egypt
Wall fragment from a tomb Old Kingdom, Dynasties V–VI 2494 BCE-2181 BCE
limestone
31.2 × 36.7 × 4.3 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1939
© Public Domain
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Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Egypt
Inscription
inscribed in hieroglyphs: (translation: Osiris, thousands of bread and beer, oxen and fowl, alabaster and clothing / all 'rdit pt km' / as the great god, revered one before (Osiris))
Accession Number
D235-1982
Department
Antiquities
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Dame Carol Colburn-Grigor CBE through Metal Manufactures Limited
Physical description
A rectangular slab, possibly from a wall, which has been smoothed at the back to a convex surface with scaring marks along the edges.
The slab preserves parts of three vertical lines of text, flanked by parts of other panels. The right hand panel has a series of inscribed rectangles one on top of the other, separated by a gap from a series of four more rectangles, each of these inscribed with a diagonal cross. The inscription is in raised relief and seems to have been part of the standard offering formula.