False door of Seshemnefer II
False door with fully rendered double-door with bolt and substantial remnants of red paint; inscribed for Seshemnefer II, identified as [jmj-r sSw a nswt] overseer of royal document scribes
Details
- ID
- BÄM_21600
- Alternate IDs
- 21600; BÄM_21600
- Department
- Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin/Neues Museum
- Classification
- Architectural elements-False Doors
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5
- Title
- False door of Seshemnefer II
- Medium
- limestone
- Dimensions
- 1.42 m (H) x 1.28 m (W)
- Credit Line
- Berlin Ägyptisches Museum
- Provenance
- G 5080, Steindorf excavations
- Bibliography
- Junker, Hermann. Gîza 3. Die Mastabas der Vorgeschrittenen V. Dynastie auf dem Westfriedhof. Bericht über die von der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien auf gemeinsame Kosten mit Dr. Wilhelm Pelizaeus unternommenen Grabungen auf dem Friedhof des Alten Reiches bei den Pyramiden von Giza. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften. Vienna & Leipzig: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1938, pp. 187-192, figs. 33-34. Kanawati, Naguib. Tombs at Giza. Seshathetep/Heti (G 5150), Nesutnefer (G 4970) and Seshemnefer II (G 5080), Volume 2. Australian Centre for Egyptology Report 18. Warminster: Aris and Phillips, 2002, p. 56. 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. 147.
