Stela of Nestjerenmaat Greetings Card
Exclusive to the British Museum, a greetings card featuring a watercolour study of an ancient Egyptian stela.
The card is part of a range accompanying the British Museum exhibition Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt.
This greetings card is printed in the UK and is blank inside for your message.
The image on this greetings card is a watercolour by Alessandro Ricci (1792-1834) which is based on a round-topped sycamore wood stela which dates to around 1069-747 BC, and depicts Nestjerenmaat, chief chantress of Montru on the right, raising her hands at the god Ra-Horakhty, who is holding a was-sceptre in one hand and an ankh-sign in the other. Between the two figures are six columns of hieroglyph texts which inscribe a funerary invocation.
A beautiful and colourful design.
- Product Code: CMCS75240
- Product Weight: 0.01Kg
- Dimensions: H14 x L14cm
- Exhibition: Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt
- Details: Includes envelope
- Postage Weight: 0.10 Kg
Exclusive to the British Museum, a greetings card featuring a watercolour study of an ancient Egyptian stela.
The card is part of a range accompanying the British Museum exhibition Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt.
This greetings card is printed in the UK and is blank inside for your message.
The image on this greetings card is a watercolour by Alessandro Ricci (1792-1834) which is based on a round-topped sycamore wood stela which dates to around 1069-747 BC, and depicts Nestjerenmaat, chief chantress of Montru on the right, raising her hands at the god Ra-Horakhty, who is holding a was-sceptre in one hand and an ankh-sign in the other. Between the two figures are six columns of hieroglyph texts which inscribe a funerary invocation.
A beautiful and colourful design.
- Product Code: CMCS75240
- Product Weight: 0.01Kg
- Dimensions: H14 x L14cm
- Exhibition: Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt
- Details: Includes envelope
- Postage Weight: 0.10 Kg
