lintel
- Museum number
- EA65952
- Description
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Limestone lintel of Kai: this small slab contains a single line of text in good, incised signs, containing the name and titles of Kai. No colour remains.
- Dimensions
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Height: 12 centimetres
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Length: 45.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The owner of Tomb D. 19 in A. Mariette, 'Les Mastabas de l'Ancien Empire' (Paris 1889), is a vizir named Kai; he is a 'wr 10 Šm‘w' and, in one place, he is also given the title 'nzty ḫntt', cf. Mastabas, p. 230 (upper text on the left, last line). Both these titles are held by the Kai of this slab, but this correspondence is not sufficient to establish more than a probable identity between the two personages.
Bibliography:
B. Porter & R. Moss, 'Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings' III (2) (Oxford: Clarendon Press), 479.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1959
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA65952
- Registration number
- 1959,1212.153
