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Chest with Writing

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Accession: 61.271
Date: ca. 1st century BCE (Ptolemaic-Roman)
Date range: 112 BCE – 11 CE
Materials: ['wood']
Repository: Walters Art Museum
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Walters Art Museum (Egyptian), Chest with Writing (61.271). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/220056

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Description

<p>The front of this box shows a king making an offering to the crocodile-god Sobek. Above the scene is an inscription in demotic. The box may have been used in temple rituals.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/61.271' rel='external'>Chest with Writing</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1

English description

[Inscription] in Demotic

Connections

Deities Sobek

Cross-references (2)

Walters-AccNum 61.271 tier-2
Walters-id 4415 tier-2

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