Plaster cast of a frieze
- Accession Number
- EC1960
- Object Types
- Fakes and replicas, Replicas | Architecture, Architectural element, Frieze
- Periods
- Graeco-Roman Period to Modern
- Ptolemaic Period
- Ptolemy VIII
- Material
- Plaster
- Provenance
- Egypt, Kom Ombo
- Measurements
- Height: 80" | Width: 110"
- Number of Elements
- 1
- Divine Name
- Harwer (Haroeris)
Licensing details
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- Description
-
Plaster cast of a frieze from the hypostyle hall of the temple of Sobek and Horus the Elder (Haroeris) at Kom Ombo. Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II receives jubilees and the khopesh sword from Horus the Elder, who stands on the right. Behind the king stand Cleopatra II (his wife) and Cleopatra III (his sister). The cast was made c. 1930. It was gifted to Swansea by the Wellcome Trustees in 1982. Currently on loan to Swansea Museum.
- Bibliography
-
Porter, Bertha and Rosalind L. B. Moss 1939. Topographical bibliography of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts, reliefs, and paintings VI: Upper Egypt: chief temples (excluding Thebes), Abydos, Dendera, Esna, Edfu, Kôm Ombo, and Philae. Oxford: Clarendon. [p. 189 (74)]
- Wellcome Number
- A654632 | R1994/1939
- Previous Owner
- Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936)
- Acquisition
- Gift, The Wellcome Trust (07 Jul 1982)
- Language
- Egyptian
- Script
- Hieroglyphic
- Last modified: 26 Apr 2020
