Limestone false door of Tebash and Merut
Limestone false door of Tebash and his wife Merut; upper panel missing, upper part weathered and somewhat decayed.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_31.782
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_31.782; 31.782
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Architectural elements-False Doors
- Period
- Old Kingdom
- Title
- Limestone false door of Tebash and Merut
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height x width x depth: 71.4 x 45.8 x 16.2 cm (28 1/8 x 18 1/16 x 6 3/8 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Mastaba G 1123
- Bibliography
- Manuelian, Peter Der. "Eight Years at the Giza Archives Project: Past Experiences and Future Plans for the Giza Digital Archive." Egyptian and Egyptological Documents, Archives, and Libraries, An Annual 1 (Milan, 2009), p. 154. Manuelian, Peter Der. "A Case of Prefabrication at Giza? The False Door of Inti." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 35 (1998), p. 116. 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 (incorrectly attributed to debris east of G 7753).
- 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: 1931: assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt. On loan to M.C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, 2004--
