Stela of Iku
The stela is almost square. Within a simple frame, Iku is depicted sitting on a chair with lion's legs. In front of her is an offering table with loaves of bread. She is wearing a long smooth wig and a close-fitting dress and she is sniffing a flower. The proportion of the chair in relation to the woman is not quite right. On the right side of the table the head of a calf is placed on a tray. The text is written in two framed lines above the representation.
Present location ALLARD PIERSON MUSEUM [06/002] AMSTERDAM
Inventory number APM 3400
Dating 6TH DYNASTY
Archaeological Site UNKNOWN
Category STELA
Material LIMESTONE
Technique LOW RELIEF
Height 34 cm
Width 32 cm
Depth 2.8 cm
Translation
(1) A boon which the king gives to Osiris in Abydos,
(2) that he may give an invocation-offering to the daily watcher of Min, Iku.
Bibliography
M.S.H.G. Heerma van Voss, Van beitel tot penseel (tentoonstellingscatalogus APM), 1973, 11 (nr. E 2)
N. Kanawati, The Rock Tombs of el-Hawawish. The Cemetery of Akhmim, vol. VII, 1987, 49/pl. 9a, fig. 35c
W.M. van Haarlem, Aegyptiaca diversa, MVAPM 43 (juni 1988), 35/fig. 1
onbekend (museum Brussel), Van Dieren en Mensen (tentoonstellingscatalogus), 1988, 182 (nr. 189)
R.A. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Egypte, geschenk van de Nijl, 1992, 90, 91/fig. 59
W.M. van Haarlem (ed.), CAA Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, Fasc. III, 1995, 1-3
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