Lantern Slide with black and white copy of a foreign (Asiatic) captive – epigraphic copy. The captive is wearing a shoulder-length wig with a headband and his arms are tied behind his back by the ellbows. He is also wearing what appears to be a lead around his neck. His face is rendered in the typical fashion of 18th dynasty Egyptian mode of display of foreigners, particularly from countries East of Egypt. In front of the man, just below his waist there is a hieroglyphic inscription in the shape of a cartouche (with the frame resembling a fortified town), giving the provenance of this person. The inscription ends with the determinative is that used for desert- or foreign places.
The person displayed here would have been an unnamed representative of his origin, being a tribe or a town and he would have been part of a list of foreign captives. This relief is possibly part of the list of foreign countries dating to the reign of Thutmose III in the Karnak Temple.
The photograph is taken at an angle.
Label ‘Egypt’, number ’44’
Label at top of spine: ’44. Thebes – Cartouche of Rehoboam.’