Item Černý MSS 6.3 - Graffito from the tomb of Ptahshepses at Abusir

Identity area

Reference code

Černý MSS 6.3

Title

Graffito from the tomb of Ptahshepses at Abusir

Date(s)

  • 1960s (Accumulation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

1 photograph

Context area

Name of creator

(1898-1970)

Content and structure area

Scope and content

1 photograph, positive print, annotated on the back.
Photograph of a hieratic graffito of year 50 (probably of Ramesses II) of the scribe Ptahemwia and father Yupa, concerning their visit to Pyramid of Sahure and paying homage to the goddess Sekhmet. ... »

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Consultation only.

Conditions governing reproduction

Reproduction by permission of the copyright owner, the Czech Institute of Egyptology. The original negative is presumably in Prague.

Allied materials area

Existence and location of copies

Duplicate photograph:
-Černý MSS 2.95.

Related units of description

Archive of the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Prague.
A record for this graffito based on Černý's previous study of the text, also with earlier observations made by Spiegelberg:
-Černý Notebook 17.118, photograph on p. 21, see also pp. 15, 20 verso (transcription).