Fragments of limestone relief from tomb of Nekhebu
Ten fragments of painted limestone relief of Nekhebu; [raised relief], six standing figures all alike and six vertical columns of hieroglyphs.
Illustration: No
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_13-1-545
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_13-1-545; 13-1-545
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Architectural elements-Relief
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6
- Entry Date
- December 1912
- Title
- Fragments of limestone relief from tomb of Nekhebu
- Medium
- Limestone
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- G 2382 [(originally thought to be a tomb, but now known to be a jumbled deposit of limestone blocks from other nearby tombs)], [Senedjemib complex] court, [originally from G 2381]
- Bibliography
- Brovarski, Edward. "A Second Style in Egyptian Relief of the Old Kingdom." In Stephen E. Thomson and Peter Der Manuelian, eds. Egypt and Beyond. Essays Presented to Leonard H. Lesko upon his Retirement from the Wilbour Chair of Egyptology at Brown University June 2005, Providence: Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies, 2008, pp. 59, 64, 66, note 58, pl. Va. Dunham, Dows. "The Biographical Inscriptions of Nekhebu in Boston and Cairo." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 24 (1938), p. 6. Reisner, George A. "A Family of Builders of the Sixth Dynasty, about 2600 B.C." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 11, No. 66 (November 1913), p. 56, fig. 5.
- Remarks
- MFA 13.4335: ten fragments forming four blocks of relief depicting six standing figures (three facing right, three facing left) of Nekhebu holding staff and scepter; columns of hieroglyphic text between figures identify Nekhebu with his names, titles, and honorific epithets.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
