Limestone false door of Senwehem
Limestone false door of Senwehem; crossbar (= lintel), two jambs, drum lintel, and central niche, all inscribed, serdab slit under drum lintel; no genealogical epithets accompany figures depicted on false door, however, drum lintel inscription indicates some (if not all) persons depicted are "children of my body, truly", some names appear associated with two different figures, (central niche) Weser, Nefer, Qaihi, Nefertjentet, Neferkhuu, Neferkhuu-nedjes, Neferirethathor, (south jamb) Senwehem (owner), Demedj, Tjenti, Nefer, Ptahshepses, Tjenti, Tjentet, Senwehem (owner), (north jamb) Senwehem (owner), Kai-iu, Senwehem (not owner), Mentjebutkhufu, Tjentet, Niwikhufu, Kaihap, Weser, Ptahshepses, Neferiuhathor, Hep; broken in two pieces.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_27.444
- Alternate IDs
- 27.444; MFAB_27.444
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Architectural elements-False Doors
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6
- Title
- Limestone false door of Senwehem
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 183.2 x 76.8 x 24 cm (72 1/8 x 30 1/4 x 9 7/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Mastaba G 2132
- Bibliography
- Chronique d'Egypte 12 (1937), [to be completed]. Capart, Jean. "Une planche de Cassas." Chronique d'Egypte 14 (1939), 158. Cherpion, Nadine. "La valeur chronologique des noms de rois sur les monuments privés d'Ancien Empire." in Sylvia Schoske, ed., Akten des Vierten Internationalen Ägyptologen Kongresses: München 1985. Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 1. Hamburg: Helmut Buske, 1988, [to be completed]. Fischer, Henry G. Varia: Egyptian Studies 1. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976, pp. 8-9, 45-50, figs. 10, 14-16. 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. 108-109, cat. 44.
- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 1913: Excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; 1927: assigned to the MFA in the division of find by the government of Egypt.
