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British Museum — Department of Egypt and Sudan · other

religious/ritual equipment

Source of record: British Museum — Department of Egypt and Sudan — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Wooden model of "adze" used in Opening of Mouth Ceremony. Incised hieroglyphic text including the name of Prince Nehy on the handle and the ritual name of the tool on the head.

The same text in other collections

Linked by shared inventory number (BM-Object Y_EA15779). Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · hieroglyphic

Transcription

wr-HkAw

English description

Translation: Great-of-hekau (magic, magical power)

Translations (1)

EN AI · OpenAI gpt-4o-2024-08-06
Great of Magic

Cross-references (3)

  • BM-Object Y_EA15779 tier-2
  • BM-Registration 1885,0723.23 tier-2
  • PNM-Object pnm:83910741 tier-2 (inventory-match)

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  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by British Museum — Department of Egypt and Sudan.
  • AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
  • Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.