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Fragment of a Dedication to Isis, Harpocrates, and Premarres

Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

CULTURE Graeco-Egyptian
MEDIUM Granite
DATES August 6, 104 B.C.E.
PERIOD Ptolemaic Period
DIMENSIONS 13 3/16 × 11 in. (33.5 × 28 cm)
ACCESSION NUMBER 16.385
CREDIT LINE Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Fragmentary, black granite slab with twelve lines of incised Greek inscription dedicating a road to a temple in the joint reign of Queen Cleopatra III and her son Ptolemy Alexander. Condition: Lower left corner and large portion of entire right side missing. Squeeze of right side among papers of Brugsch now in University Library at Gottingen. Original apparent;y lost.
MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
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