Limestone offering basin
White limestone offering basin; incised inscription, [made from part of door lintel inscribed for Akhmerutnisut with incised hetep di nisut [Htp dj nswt] offering formula].
Illustration: Yes with hieroglyphs
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_36-10-4
- Alternate IDs
- 36-10-4; HUMFA_36-10-4
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Tomb equipment-Offering tables and basins
- Entry Date
- 10/02/1936
- Title
- Limestone offering basin
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height: 15 cm Length: 92 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 2421 X, door block (reused), [possibly originally from G 2184]
- Bibliography
- D'Auria, Sue, Peter Lacovara, and Catharine H. Roehrig. Mummies & Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1988, p. 87.
- Remarks
- Roth (Mummies & Magic, p. 87) suggests: "If this lintel was not taken from the tomb of the elder [Akhmerutnisut] (there is no obvious place in that tomb to restore it), it may have been taken from a lost chapel built by his son."