| Artefact ID | 1769 |
| TM ID | - |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 3 (Maʿbad Hībis) | Class | Architectural element |
| Material | Stone |
| Description | The object having disappeared after the 1909-1910 excavation, we can only rely on the two lines in which Winlock describes it: "Another fragment of decoration that probably came from the church was a slab of relief with a female figure carrying a basket, of which Evelyn White made a sketch." (1941: 47). The drawing made by Hugh Evelyn-White, the only existing illustration of the object, now kept in the archives of the Department of Medieval Art of the Metropolitan Museum, indicates as dimensions 60 x 36 cm. |
| Selection criteria | Archaeological context associated with Christian markers |
| Date from | 350 |
| Date to | 399 |
| Dating criteria | See Maʿbad Hībis. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | The slab was found during the 1909-1910 excavation season in Kharga run by the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. According to Winlock 1941: 47, it originates "probably ... from the church." Remains that the style and representation itself are equally surprising both for the church and the temple. The Department of Egyptian Art of the MMA, where the Hibis part of the Kharga archives was transferred, has no photographs of the object. The drawing of the slab is kept at the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters of the MMA. |
| Accession number | Location of the object unknown. |
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