DOI Artikel:
Lipińska, Jadwiga: Egyptian sculptures and reliefs "Brought" by Professor Kazimierz Michałowski from Edfu
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18950#0055
New Kingdom, inv. no 141296”.6 Michałowski should have remembered that
there were two morę adjacent blocks anderroneously describe the object as
part of the stela. One of his collaborators was probably responsible for giving
the wrong datę and for giving each of the blocks a separate inventory
number. The object itself is ąuite interesting, despite its fragmentary State.
Beginning from the left, a couple is represented in a high ąuality sunk relief,
seated upon a low-backed, lion-legged chair, facing to the right (ill. 3). The
husband is wearing a half-goffered kilt and a broad collar, his left hand is
decorated with a bracelet, and is closed upon the chest holding a
handkerchief, the right hand extended toward an offering table with
conventional loaves. His wife, seated behind him, is dressed in a long, close
fitting shift with two striped shoulder straps, and wears a broad necklace and
a bracelet on her right hand, which is depicted clasping a handkerchief. Her
left hand is placed around her husband's shoulder. The woman evidently wore
short hair. Under the offering table a nested ewer and a basin is depicted, and
to the right a man in a knee-long kilt with a flared front stands facing the
offering table and the seated couple (ill. 4). He wears a broad collar and
shoulder-length wig. His hands are at his sides, empty. In front of his head,
the end of his name is preserved. Only the signs “t” and “i” are clearly visible,
and two morę are damaged.
To the right, behind the standing man, there is another scene of similar
character but sculpted in raised relief (ill. 4-5). The level of the surface of the
stone is higher than that of the left portion. The composition is only partly
finished, most of it is fiat, with shapes outlined by the chiselled contours.
6 K. Michałowski, Sztuka Starożytna, Warsaw 1955, p. 171.
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there were two morę adjacent blocks anderroneously describe the object as
part of the stela. One of his collaborators was probably responsible for giving
the wrong datę and for giving each of the blocks a separate inventory
number. The object itself is ąuite interesting, despite its fragmentary State.
Beginning from the left, a couple is represented in a high ąuality sunk relief,
seated upon a low-backed, lion-legged chair, facing to the right (ill. 3). The
husband is wearing a half-goffered kilt and a broad collar, his left hand is
decorated with a bracelet, and is closed upon the chest holding a
handkerchief, the right hand extended toward an offering table with
conventional loaves. His wife, seated behind him, is dressed in a long, close
fitting shift with two striped shoulder straps, and wears a broad necklace and
a bracelet on her right hand, which is depicted clasping a handkerchief. Her
left hand is placed around her husband's shoulder. The woman evidently wore
short hair. Under the offering table a nested ewer and a basin is depicted, and
to the right a man in a knee-long kilt with a flared front stands facing the
offering table and the seated couple (ill. 4). He wears a broad collar and
shoulder-length wig. His hands are at his sides, empty. In front of his head,
the end of his name is preserved. Only the signs “t” and “i” are clearly visible,
and two morę are damaged.
To the right, behind the standing man, there is another scene of similar
character but sculpted in raised relief (ill. 4-5). The level of the surface of the
stone is higher than that of the left portion. The composition is only partly
finished, most of it is fiat, with shapes outlined by the chiselled contours.
6 K. Michałowski, Sztuka Starożytna, Warsaw 1955, p. 171.
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