Limestone slab stela of Kanefer
Limestone slab stela of Kanefer; fine raised relief, male figure seated (facing right) on stool with bovine legs at offering table, wearing short curled wig and long garment tied at shoulder, inscription: (at top) name and titles: [jmj-r wpwt xrptmAt(yw) kA-nfr] "the overseer of commissions, controller of bowcase bearers, Kanefer", (in middle, over offering table) offering list, (on right) linen list; in fragments.
Details
- ID
- HM_6-19807
- Alternate IDs
- 6-19807; HM_6-19807
- Department
- Hearst Museum, Berkeley
- Classification
- Architectural elements-Stelae
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Entry Date
- 1903–1904
- Title
- Limestone slab stela of Kanefer
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- 38 x 52.9 x 7.3 cm (14 15/16 x 20 13/16 x 2 7/8 in)
- Credit Line
- Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Hearst Egyptian Expedition
- Provenance
- Mastaba G 1203, originally on E face of mastaba inside offering chapel, but found partly in chapel and partly in 1235
- Bibliography
- Lutz, Henry F. Egyptian Statues and Statuettes in the Museum of Anthropology of the University of California. University of California Publications. Egyptian Archaeology 5. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, 1930, p. 26. Manuelian, Peter Der. Slab Stelae of the Giza Necropolis. Publications of the Pennsylvania–Yale Expedition to Egypt 7. New Haven and Philadelphia: Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2003, pp. 4-5, pls. 3-4, p. 43, figs. 24. 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. 57.
