Limestone offering niche lintel of Nebu
Limestone offering niche lintel inscribed for Nebu (name means "the swimmer"); sunk relief with small finely incised hieroglyphs comprising [Htp dj nswt] hetep-di-nisut formula to Anubis, six family members also named: Inti (female), Redines (male), Ihi, (male), Ikhi (male), Senti (female), and Pepi (female); fragile and crumbling.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_APP.1921.1
- Alternate IDs
- APP.1921.1; MFAB_APP.1921.1
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Architectural elements-Relief
- Period
- Old Kingdom
- Title
- Limestone offering niche lintel of Nebu
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Overall: 39 x 19 x 7.5 cm (15 3/8 x 7 1/2 x 2 15/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Wadi Cemetery, GW 38, displaced at E face
- 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. 105, 108, 120, 124-126, 133, 138, note 11, figs. 3, 17-21, pl. III, table 1.
- Notes
- This object was excavated by G.A. Reisner for the Hearst Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book.
