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St. London, BM E 29848

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	London, British Museum
Inventory Number	St. London, BM E 29848
Current Location	London, British Museum
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Amarna () [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	purchase
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1888 and 1888
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Budge, Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Junker, Hermann Certainty: high

Object

Object Type	stela
Dating of Object	14th century BCE
Dating	between -1400 and -1300
State of Preservation	Good / fair; complete
Comments on Object	Length: 2.75 inches, Width: 2.375 inches Clay tablet inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform; letter from the ruler Shipti-Ba'al of Lachish to the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III or Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten).

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Script, Primary	Cursive Hieroglyphs
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian
Comments on Text Layout	21 lines; complete.

Text Content

Modern Title	private stela
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	religious-literary \| polytheistic Egyptian
Summary of Content	private stela
Location of Composition	unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
6th century					last three quarters of 6th century;

Literature

Munro, Peter, Untersuchungen zu den Spätägyptischen Totenstelen (1986). (255)

DatasetID	309962
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	58858
Author	Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309962 (= St. London, BM E 29848), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.