tomb-relief;
door-jamb
- Museum number
- EA867
- Description
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Limestone door-jamb: it bears five small registers (four complete) and the bottom of a sixth. The scenes represented are all connected with the funerary feast of the deceased owner of the tomb. In the bottom register a bull is shown being slaughtered and dismembered; in each of the registers above two offering-bearers are represented bearing conventional offerings of meat, birds, bread wine, and fruit.
- Dimensions
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Height: 162 centimetres
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Width: 46 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
The British Museum, 'Hieroglyphic texts from Egyptian stelae, etc., in the British Museum' Part 6 (London, 1922), pl. 14;
B. Porter & R. Moss, 'Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings' III (Oxford: Clarendon Press), p. 67; Part 2, p. 303.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Poor; there has been much surface flaking; much of the surface has been lost since 1922.
- Acquisition date
- 1898
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA867
- Registration number
- 1898,0312.207
