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Gilded chair of Sitamen
General Information

A gilded wooden chair dedicated to princess Sitamen, it depicted the princess seated on a chair and offering bearer offering to her, this scene is depicted twice upon the chair, and each scene faces another one. A columns of vertical inscriptions crowned the top of the chair.

Number CG 51113
Storing Place Egyptian museum - Cairo - Egypt
Material Wood
Type Chair
Type of Script Hieroglyphic
Discovery Place Tomb of Yuya and Tuya - Luxor - Egypt
Height 77 cm
Historical Period The Eighteenth Dynasty – The New Kingdom
General Comments

The chair is one of the treasures of the Egyptian museum of cairo. Princess Sitamen was the daughter of Amenhotep III and queen Tiye, and it was found in their tomb.

Inscriptions on the Monument
Transliteration
( If the Hieroglyphic,Demotic or Hieratic text is not appearing clear, install this file )

Ms nbw n xAswt rsw(t) sAt nswt wrt mrt.f sAt-imn


Translation

Brining gold of the foreign land of the south, great daughter of the king, whom he loves, Sitamen.

Scientific Publishing

J. Kamrin, Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs, A Practical Guide, (Cairo, 2004), 165

The Digital Library of Inscriptions and Calligraphies, Bibliotheca Alexandrina ©