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Votive stele of Shed-wy-Amun

Egyptian

Medium/Technique Limestone
Dimensions Overall: 10.5 x 9 cm (4 1/8 x 3 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Museum purchase with funds donated by Miss Mary S. Ames
Accession Number11.1499
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsArchitectural elementsStele

DescriptionSoft, white limestone; figure of king and two officials incised on surface; four vertical rows of hieroglyphics; traces of white priming and blue filling; broken and mended; surface rough.
ProvenanceBy 1909: purchased in Egypt by Joseph Lindon Smith; 1909: on loan to the MFA; 1911: purchased by the MFA through funds provided by Mary S. Ames.
(Accession date: August 3, 1911.)