Limestone slab stela of Wepemnefret
Limestone slab stela of [wpmnfrt] Wepemnefret; painted low raised relief, male figure seated (facing right) on stool with bovine legs at offering table with bread loaves, wearing shoulder length wig, mustache, squared beard, long leopard pelt, and bracelets, inscription: (above) name, (top and far right) titles, (inner right, below three falcons on standards) linen list, (middle, above and right of offering table) offering list.
Details
- ID
- HM_6-19825
- Alternate IDs
- HM_6-19825; 6-19825
- Department
- Hearst Museum, Berkeley
- Classification
- Architectural elements-Stelae
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Khufu
- Entry Date
- 1903–1904
- Title
- Limestone slab stela of Wepemnefret
- Medium
- Limestone, paint
- Dimensions
- 45.5 x 7.5 x 66 cm
- Credit Line
- Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Hearst Egyptian Expedition
- Provenance
- Mastaba G 1201, in situ on E face of mastaba, then walled over
- Bibliography
- Brovarski, Edward. "Two Old Kingdom Writing Boards from Giza." Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 71 (1987), p. 46. Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, pp. 245-246, cat. 52. Fazzini, Richard A. Images for Eternity: Egyptian Art from Berkeley and Brooklyn. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 1975, p.28, cat. 17. Jánosi, Peter. "Der Tote vor dem Opfertisch. Die Opferplatten von Giza. Besprechung des Buches Slab Stelae of the Giza Necropolis von Peter Der Manuelian." Sokar 10 (1. Halbjahr 2005), pp. 19-23, unnumbered figs. Jánosi, Peter. "The Tombs of Officials. Houses of Eternity." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 26, unnumbered figure. Lutz, Henry F. Egyptian Tomb Steles and Offering Stones of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology of the University of California. University of California Publications. Egyptian Archaeology 4. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, 1927, pp. 1, 15, pls. 1.1, 48, 49. Manuelian, Peter Der. "On the Early History of Giza: The 'Lost' Wadi Cemetery (Giza Archives Gleanings, III)." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 95 (2009), p. 126, note 43. Manuelian, Peter Der. "A 'New' Slab Stela for Nefer from G 2100? (Giza Archives Project Gleanings: I)." In Stephen E. Thompson and Peter Der Manuelian, eds. Egypt and Beyond: Essays Presented to Leonard H. Lesko upon his Retirement from the Wilbour Chair of Egyptology at Brown University June 2005. Providence: Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies, 2008, p. 228. 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. 2-3, pls. 1, 2, p. 33, fig. 6, p. 40, figs. 19-22. 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.
