Limestone offering niche lintel of Iaunefer (?)
Limestone offering niche lintel; standing male figure and remains of inscription: sunk relief [Htp-dj-nswt] hetep di nisut formula (incised from right to left) with sunk relief figure of standing male with outstretched arm and starched kilt at left edge of block, name and title(s) (difficult to read) may contain nfr sign (Sign List F35) and unusually tall striding man with staff (A20), possibly [jAw-nfr] Iaunefer (though written in reverse [nfr-jAw]), name most likely appears over his head, as well as on round drum in lower center of block; damaged.
Details
- ID
- HM_6-19820
- Alternate IDs
- HM_6-19820; 6-19820
- Department
- Hearst Museum, Berkeley
- Classification
- Architectural elements-Doors, jambs, lintels
- Entry Date
- 1903–1904
- Title
- Limestone offering niche lintel of Iaunefer (?)
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- 14 x 36 cm (5 1/2 x 14 3/16 in)
- Credit Line
- Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Hearst Egyptian Expedition
- Provenance
- Giza Wadi Cemetery, GW 16, debris on top of SE corner of mastaba
- Bibliography
- Manuelian, Peter Der. "On the Early History of Giza: The 'Lost' Wadi Cemetery (Giza Archives Gleanings, III)." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 95 (2009), pp. 127, 128, 133, figs. 3, 24-26, table 1.
