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St. New York, MET Accession Number 14.7.11

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	St. New York, MET Accession Number 14.7.11
Current Location	New York, Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Koptos (Qbṱ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Type of Discovery	purchase Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Mohareb Todrous Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Luxor
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1914 and 1914

Object

Object Type	stela
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The left as well the lower part are missing.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Inks and Pigments	engraved
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	The lower part of the columns, the second part of the line, large part of the fifth and sixth column, and at least one further column are missing.
Script, Primary	Hieroglyphs
Language, Primary	Old Egyptian
Comments on Text Layout	"The labeling of the text as a royal decree appears in the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period in reversed orientation, as if continued by the king's name, but nevertheless directed at the addressee." (According to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2000-2018), Decree)
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	1
Quantity of Columns	6

 

Text Content

Modern Title	decree of King Neferkauhor, inserrting a governor
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	documentary | administrative document
Summary of Content	"This stone preserves a decree of king Neferkauhor appointing Idy, nomarch of Coptos, as Governor of Upper Egypt from Elephantine at the southern border with Nubia to Hu somewhat north of Coptos. This probably occurred when Shemay, Idy's father, became vizier." (According to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2000-2018), Decree)
Location of Composition	Koptos (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual
Gender	Man
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

Text

 

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
20085	man	Idy	Jdy	pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
08th dynasty					reign of Neferkauhor;

 

Literature

• Hayes, William Christopher, The Scepter of Egypt I: A Background for the Study of the Egyptian Antiquities in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Middle Kingdom (1953). (137, fig. 80)
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2000-2018, Fragmentary Decree of King Neferkauhor (2018). ()

 

DatasetID	310580
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Martina Grünhagen, Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 310580 (= St. New York, MET Accession Number 14.7.11), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Martina Grünhagen, Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.