Limestone false door tablet
[Unfinished] white limestone [false door] tablet; [sunk] relief; reused as roofing.
Illustration: Yes
Details
- ID
- EMC_JE_72136
- Alternate IDs
- EMC_JE_72136; JE_72136; HUMFA_37-10-7; 37-10-7; EMC_SR_2/15250; SR_2/15250
- Department
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Classification
- Architectural elements-False Doors
- Entry Date
- 10/07/1937
- Title
- Limestone false door tablet
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height 52 cm; Width 74 cm; Thickness 10 cm
- Credit Line
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Provenance
- Pit G 2021c C, roof (reused)
- Bibliography
- 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. 67 (incorrectly assume Senuter represents proper name).
- Remarks
- The hieroglyphs snTr ("incense") in front of the seated man are not likely to be his name (they are oriented away from him); this tablet was never completed. Many false door tablets have snTr written in approximately this position, as part of a longer list of offerings.
- Problems/Questions
- Cairo JE number verified