Limestone false door of Inti
Fine limestone false door of Inti (female) with well-cut hieroglyphs in raised relief.
Illustration: Yes with hieroglyphs.
Illustration scale: 1:5
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_29-12-106
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_29-12-106; 29-12-106
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Architectural elements-False Doors
- Entry Date
- 12/08/1929
- Title
- Limestone false door of Inti
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height: 120.6 cm Width: 60 - 61.5 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Street G 7700, debris E of mastaba G 7753
- Bibliography
- Bolshakov, Andrey. "Osiris in the Fourth Dynasty Again? The False Door of Jntj, MFA 31.781." In Hedvig Györy, ed. Mélanges offerts à Edith Varga. Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts Supplément-2001, Budapest: Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts, 2001, pp. 66-76, figs. 1, 3, 4. Manuelian, Peter Der. "A Case of Prefabrication at Giza? The False Door of Inti." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 35 (1998), pp. 115-127. Markowitz, Yvonne J., Joyce L. Haynes, and Rita E. Freed. Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids: Highlights from the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expedition. Boston: MFA Publications, 2002, pp. 78-79, cat. 24. Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L.B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings 3: Memphis (Abû Rawâsh to Dahshûr). Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1931. 2nd edition. 3: Memphis, Part 1 (Abû Rawâsh to Abûsîr), revised and augmented by Jaromír Málek. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1974, p. 203.
- Remarks
- Pencil notes assign false doors to G 1123.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
