Meroë site 6: Meroitic Stela - University of Liverpool Digital Heritage Lab

Title

Meroë site 6: Meroitic Stela

Creator

["John Garstang"]

Catalogue Reference

JG/M/E/9

Date

1910

Description

Image of a stela with winged scarab and a Meroitic inscription from the Lion Temple (site 6). '36 M1' is written on negative. Includes note 'Meroë City ETC. pl. 24', slide 36 M1'. Album print marked '6 M10'.

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Document Details

Title

Meroë site 6: Meroitic Stela

Catalogue Reference

JG/M/E/9

Creator

["John Garstang"]

Date

1910

Object type

["Glass plate negative"]

Region or Period

["Sudan"]

Provenance (Geographical)

["Meroë"]

Excavation

["Meroe"]

Excavator

["John Garstang"]

Excavation Date

1909-1910

Description

Dimensions - Width

128mm

Dimensions - Height

180mm

Repository

["Garstang Museum of Archaeology"]

Reproduction notice

For enquiries about reproduction and licensing, please contact garstang@liverpool.ac.uk.

Related Material

Another print of this image can be found in JG/M/PA/37. Reproduced as lantern slide 36 M1, entitled ‘Meroë – inscription ‘Meroitic’ writing’. The stela is now in the National Museum of Sudan, Khartoum.

Publications that cite this item

Published in Garstang, (1911),Meroë: City of the Ethiopians,pl. XXIV, labelled ‘Face of an inscribed stela (No.7) of later style in which the Lion-god seems to replace Osiris in association with Isis and Horus’;Leclant (ed.), (1980), Répertoire d'épigraphie méroïtique, REM 0407.