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Stat. Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts 51.1504-E

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Collection

Inventory Number	Stat. Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts 51.1504-E
Current Location	(somewhere else)
Publication Permission Status	permission for publication upon enquiry only

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance Details	sanctuary of Heqaib (?)
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	purchase Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Csoma, József Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 1940 and 1960

Object

Object Type	statuette
Dating of Object	around the end of the 13th dynasty

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Script, Primary	Hieroglyphs
Language, Primary	Middle Egyptian

Text Content

Modern Title	Offering formula containing the owner's name
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown)
Text Types	religious-literary \| polytheistic Egyptian
Summary of Content	"Although the beginning of the incised funerary offering formula on the broken back pillar is missing, the text on the base preserved fully the owner's name, title and matrilinear line-age: 'on which the god lives [i.e. the offering], ti the ka of the sem-priest of SObjek, Heqaib, true of voice, born to Resankh.' The 'truncated leg' in the hieroglyph depicting an owl on the back pillar is significantly helpful in establishing the date of the statue." [Kóthay/Liptay 2013].
Location of Composition	unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Comment on Gender	owner is a male person
Religion	Polytheism (Egyptian)

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
05th dynasty					Heqaib;

Pictures

Budapest_MFA_51.1504_S

Reserved Copyright

Literature

Franke, Detlef, Das Heiligtum des Heqaib auf Elephantine: Geschichte eines Provinzheiligtums im Mittleren Reich (1994). (89 (no. 9), 91, 103)
Gaboda, Peter, Fragment d’une statuette du prêtre-sm Héqaib. „(Foot)note” sur le culte du dieu-crocodile à la fin du Moyen Empire (1992). (3-17)
Gaboda, Peter, The Fragment of a statue of Heqaib, Sem-Priest of Sobek (2013). (32)

DatasetID	311104
last Change	29.07.2022
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 311104 (= Stat. Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts 51.1504-E), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.