Limestone offering basin of Tjenti
Rectangular limestone offering basin inscribed for Tjenti; inscribed around top rim.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_13.3282
- Alternate IDs
- 13.3282; MFAB_13.3282
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Tomb equipment-Offering tables and basins
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5
- Title
- Limestone offering basin of Tjenti
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Legacy dimension: .217 x .385
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- NE of pit G 1165
- Bibliography
- New Orleans Museum of Art. Eye for Eye: Egyptian Images & Inscriptions. April 2, 1977 through February, 1978, New Orleans Museum of Art. New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 1977, cat. 49. 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. 55 (incorrectly attributed to G 1111).
- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. Excavated by the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; 1913: assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt.