Meroë site 750: Relief Fragments - University of Liverpool Digital Heritage Lab

Title

Meroë site 750: Relief Fragments

Creator

["John Garstang"]

Catalogue Reference

JG/M/G/3

Date

1912

Description

Image of various relief fragments on yellow sandstone blocks from at site 750, representing (from top left) shoulders and head of a goddess; a hand holding a sistrum and shoulder of another figure (thought to be royal figures); procession of standard bearers; a female figure standing with her arms raised in the gesture of adoration. Album print marked '750 M11'.

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Document Details

Title

Meroë site 750: Relief Fragments

Catalogue Reference

JG/M/G/3

Creator

["John Garstang"]

Date

1912

Object type

["Paper print"]

Region or Period

["Sudan"]

Provenance (Geographical)

["Meroë"]

Excavation

["Meroe"]

Excavator

["John Garstang"]

Excavation Date

1911-1912

Description

Dimensions - Width

164mm

Dimensions - Height

120mm

Repository

["Garstang Museum of Archaeology"]

Reproduction notice

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

Related Material

3 of the objects are held by the Garstang Museum: E.8646 (750-9); E.8617 (750-14); E.8653 (750-11). Reproduced in the Excavation Committee report, (JG/7/1/3), entitled 'Many instructive reliefs were recovered from the foundations of the above-mentioned palace [site 750], in which they had been used as building materials'. The bottom relief is also labelled 'The Queen of Ethiopia'.

Publications that cite this item

Image the procession of standard bearers (find reference 750-11) is published in Török, (1997), Meroë City, Vol. 2, Pls. 153. Full description of the objects can be found in Török, (1997), Meroë City, Vol. 1, pp186-187, find references (from top left), 750-9, 750-14, 750-11, and 750-15.