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Fragment of limestone false door (?)

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7110-7120, G 7102, Isis Temple

[Fragment of false door (?); raised relief, inscribed: above: lintel text with beginning of [Htp dj nswt] hetep di nisut formula, below: male figure of [Hm-kA] ka-priest Nikhasutnisut.] Illustration: Yes with hieroglyphs

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_26-1-1245
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Architectural elements-False Doors
  • Findspot
    [Giza (provenance unknown), possibly Isis temple, room A (?)]
  • Material
    Limestone
  • Dimensions
    Height: 48 cm Width: 29 cm Thickness: 12 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    Deaccessioned
  • Owner
    Nikhasutnisut (G 7911)
  • Notes
    deaccessioned: to Sotheby Parke Bernet, Sale 4195, December 14, 1978, cat. no. 311 (or 3011).
  • Remarks
    This item exists not as an object register entry, but as two enclosures, out of numerical sequence, recorded in microfilm, see duplicates of page 220 in bound red book of this volume.

Tombs and Monuments 1

Full Bibliography

  • Important Egyptian, Classical and Western Asiatic Antiquities, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Sale 4195, December 14, 1978.

People 1

Ancient People

  • Nikhasutnisut (G 7911)

    • Type Owner
    • Remarks Owner of G 7911. Limestone false door (30-12-28) inscribed for Nikhasutnisut, identified as [sS Hm-kA] scribe, ka-priest; found in G 7911. Possibly same individual as Nikhasutnisut, who appears on fragment of false door (?) (26-1-1245), identified as [Hm-kA] ka-priest; provenance unknown, possibly found displaced in Isis Temple, room A.