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Primary limestone false door of Kai; inner and outer jambs decorated in registers of figures (all names not preserved) with bottom registers depicting offering stands; Kai represented at top of south inner jamb, identified as "one revered before his lord"; on outer south jamb named figures include: [...]ai (name and figure only partially preserved), Rudj, Iusau; on south inner jamb named figures include: Katep and Iset, Nedjem and Nedjemi; on north outer jamb named figures include: [...]tju (name and figure only partially preserved), Seneb, Bebib; on north inner jamb named figures include: possibly Sekhi (name and figure only partially preserved), Perwy, Rudjka.

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Falsa porta principale della Mastaba di Kai. La decorazione e' disposta in registri orizzontali sui montanti della porta. Sullo stipite interno sinistro, in alto, e' rappresentato il defunto: "il privilegiato presso il suo signore, Kai."

Details

ID
TUR_S.1844
Alternate IDs
TUR_S.1844; S.1844
Department
Museo Egizio, Turin
Classification
Architectural elements-False Doors
Period
Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5 - Dynasty 6
Title
Primary limestone false door of Kai
Medium
Limestone
Dimensions
201 x 109 x 34 cm.; Volume: 0.63 cu. m.; Weight:1638 kg.
Credit Line
Museo Egizio, Turin
Provenance
Mastaba of Kai
Bibliography
Ballerini, Francesco, Notizia sommaria degli scavi della Missione archeologica italiana in Egitto (1903), (manoscritto riprodotto), [non pubbl.], [1903], p.49 n. 2, p. 51, n. 1 Curto, Silvio. Gli Scavi Italiani a el-Ghiza (1903). Rome: Centro Per Le Antichitá E La Storia Dell'Arte del Vicino Oriente, 1993, pp. 46-48, fig. 12, pl. XII. Museo Egizio di Torino, Museo Egizio di Torino, Preistoria e Antico Regno [Guida breve], Electa, Milano, 2001, pp. 36-37 Porter, B., Moss, R.L.B., Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings, Oxford, 1960, p. 194

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