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Low-relief of Sehetepibre

Museu Nacional

Museu Nacional
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Calcareous rock; Incised figures and inscriptions; This object is not a wake; Seems to be the front (left) part of a wider panel. On the right, there is part of a text belonging to another currently disappeared scene, away from the main figure (which is facing left). A raised margin represents the threshold of a door on which a frieze of kheker motif indicates the original top of the wall. In the central part Sehetepibre is shown with the arms extended using a heavy skirt with horizontal lines and in the top a fringed edge. He is depicted with very large eyes and a rectangular beard. These characteristics explain the original function of this part. She was the front of a wall to the left of the inner room of the chapel of a tomb or votive chapel. To the left a vertical column of hieroglyphs adorns the edge of the panel, the end constituting the left threshold of the entrance to the inner room. (The lower part of the wall was lost, the final part of the text on the edge of the wall disappeared with it.) The large image of Sehetepibre should be turned towards the processional pathway Osiris went through, so that he could "worship the god", and "To praise Osiris ... in the great procession," as the inscriptions say.

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  • Title: Low-relief of Sehetepibre
  • Creator Lifespan: -1730/-1730
  • Rights: Copyright © 2017 Museu Nacional/UFRJ
  • Setor: Egito
  • Sala de Exposição: Egito Antigo
  • Local de Coleta/Origem: Procedência desconhecida, provavelmente Abidos
  • Data de Origem/Produção: XIII Dinastia, cerca de 1730 a.C.
  • Area de Conhecimento: Arqueologia
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