Limestone false door of Hemi-ra

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Abstract

Rectangular, priestess of Hathor seated before offering table, inscribed. The stela is in the form of a doorway. Such objects acted as the doorway through which the spirit if the deceased could recieve offerings at the tomb. At the top sits the owner, a woman who was priestess of Hathor. Her name was Hemy-Re. In front of the deceased is an offering table. There is no mention of a husband of family in the text. Height: 82.5 cm Thickness: 8 cm Width: 63.5 cm https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/51004 Scanned by Daniel Pett and Melanie Pitkin with an Artec Leo (12/7/2021), processed in Artec Studio 15. c 13 GB of data Source: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab

Fields of Study & Subjects

African history and culture analysis Ancient Egypt and Archaeology

Publication details

Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
22 July 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Dataset