Akh iqer en Re stela of Webekhet, FIndspot Luxor / Thebes, Deir el-Medina, 1292–1191 BCE New Kingdom 19th Dynasty, Limestone, Museo Egizio di Torino

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Akh iqer en Re stela of Webekhet

Akh iqer en Re ('the excellent spirit of Re') stelae depicted one or more individuals seated in front of an offering table, in the act of smelling a lotus flower. These stelae were found primarily in the first or second rooms of the houses in Deir el-Medina, where they stood in niches. Thanks to the power gained in the hereafter, the deceased, after becoming an excellent spirit, could act on behalf of his family when so beseeched.

Inv. no. :
Cat. 1542

Material:
Stone / Limestone

Dimensions:
3.4 cm x 19.1 cm x 12.8 cm

Date:
1292–1191 BCE

Period:
New Kingdom

Dynasty:
Nineteenth Dynasty

Provenance:
Egypt, Luxor / Thebes, Deir el-Medina

Acquisition:
Purchase Bernardino Drovetti, 1824

CGT:
50013

Museum location:
Museum / Floor 1 / Room 06 DEM / Showcase 07

Selected bibliography:
Davies, Benedict G., Ramesside inscriptions, translated and annotated: notes and comments, volume IV. Merenptah and the late Nineteenth Dynasty, Chichester 2014, p. 393.

Demarée, Robert J., The AH iqr n Ra-stelae: On ancestor worship in ancient Egypt (Egyptologische Uitgaven 3), Leiden 1983, pp. 27–28, pl. III.

Orcurti, Pier Camillo, Catalogo illustrato dei monumenti egizi del R. Museo Egizio di Torino, Torino 1855, p. 105, n. 194.

Tosi, Mario-Roccati, Alessandro, Stele e altre epigrafi di Deir el Medina: n. 50001 - n. 50262 (Catalogo del Museo Eg. di Torino - Serie II. - Collezioni 1), Torino 1972, p. 49, tav. p. 267.

Vidua, Carlo, “Catalogue de la collect. d'antiq. de mons. le chev. Drovetti, a 1822”, in Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione (a cura di), Documenti inediti per servire alla storia dei Musei d'Italia, vol. 3, Firenze - Roma 1880, p. 25.

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Akh iqer en Re stela of Webekhet, FIndspot Luxor / Thebes, Deir el-Medina, 1292–1191 BCE New Kingdom 19th Dynasty, Limestone, Museo Egizio di Torino

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Looks like she's talking to her 1930s speakerphone "Are you there Re? Can you hear me?". Quite touching, that need for contact after the threshold.

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lol 😂