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| Keywords: Egyptian - Votive Plaque of King Tanyidamani - Walters 22258 - Back.jpg Kingdom was part of a commemorative monument to King Tanyidamani One side depicts the ruler in royal costume with ram's-head earrings an Egyptian crown and a scepter in his hand An image of the lion-headed war- and fertility-god Apedemak appears on the other side The deity holds a bundle of sorghum and a scepter topped with a small seated lion The inscriptions are in Meroitic script and name the king and the god ca 100 BC Meroitic dark red siltstone cm 18 5 9 5 1 7 accession number 22 258 28665 William MacGregor Tamworth Staffordshire Sale Sotheby Wilkinson Hodge London June 26-29 and July 4-6 1922 no 469 Dikran Kelekian New York and Paris 1922 by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum 1931 by bequest Acquired by Henry Walters 1923 Africa in Antiquity The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn; Seattle Art Museum Seattle; New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans; The Hague Municipal Museum Gemeentemuseum Den Haag The Hague 1978-1979 Africa The Art of a Continent Solomon R Guggenheim Museum New York 1996 Egypt in Africa Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis 1996 place of origin Temple of Apedemak in Meroë Sudan Walters Art Museum license Ancient Egyptian reliefs in the Walters Art Museum Ancient Egyptian plaques in the Walters Art Museum Tanyidamani Meroitic writing | ||||
