tomb-relief
- Museum number
- EA872
- Description
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Fragment of tomb relief: part of a limestone raised relief from the tomb chapel of an unknown official, showing banqueters with their names in incised hieroglyphs (reading left to right).The upper register depicts 'his son Userkafankh' sitting by an offering-table; the lower register depicts 'his son (sic) Khentkaues' in a similar scene. There are traces of another female figure There are some remains of red and yellow pigment on the figures, there is a little green pigment of the right-hand edge and a discoloured blue in the hieroglyphs. The hieroglyphs are incised; the remainder of the scene is in good low relief.
- Production date
- 2460BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 31.20 centimetres (max)
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Thickness: 6 centimetres (max)
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Width: 22.50 centimetres (max)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Associated fragments in Basel (5219) and Baltimore (22.83), cf. Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 99 (Leipzig and Berlin), 128, pl.6.
Bibliography:
B. Porter & R. Moss, 'Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings' III (Part 2) (Oxford: Clarendon Press), 579;
T.G.H.James, 'Hieroglyphic Texts' I (Part 2) (London, 1961), 19, pl. 20;
Y. Harpur.'The identity and positions of relief fragments in museums and private collections', 'Journal of Egyptian Archaeology' 71 (1985), 36.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair (incomplete)
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA872
- Registration number
- 1891,0713.6