Block of wall painting from tomb of Nekhebu
Large block of limestone, painted, at least three registers of striding figures showing various headdresses, colored red, yellow, or black with titles in black in front of each figure (there does not seem to be any relation between colors and titles), some figures simply have name without title [GLYPHS].
Illustration: No
Details
- ID
- EMC_JE_44621
- Alternate IDs
- JE_44621; EMC_JE_44621; HUMFA_13-1-546; 13-1-546; EMC_SR_2/15350; SR_2/15350
- Department
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Classification
- Architectural elements-Wall painting
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6
- Entry Date
- December 1912
- Title
- Block of wall painting from tomb of Nekhebu
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- H 47 x L 80 cm
- Credit Line
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Provenance
- G 2382 [(originally thought to be a tomb, but now known to be a jumbled deposit of limestone blocks from other nearby tombs)], [Senedjemib complex] court, [originally from G 2381]
- Bibliography
- Smith, William Stevenson. Ancient Egypt as Represented in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1960 (6th ed.), pp. 55, 63.
- Notes
- Fifteen fragments of wall painting originally registered as HUMFA_13-1-546; of these, four are in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFAB_13.4339.1–MFAB_13.4339.4); one large block is in the collection of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo (EMC_JE_44621).
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession numbers verified
