Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2120
Limestone slab stela of Seshatsekhentiu; in many fragments, incomplete, restored with plaster in 1935.
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- ID
- MFAB_06.1894
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- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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- Classification
- Architectural elements-Stelae
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- Findspot
- Mastaba G 2120
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- Material
- Limestone
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- Dimensions
- Legacy dimension: H 0.520 W 0.800
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- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Object Ownership Information
- MFA
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- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Khufu
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- Date of Register Entry
- about 2606–2583 B.C.
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- Owner
- Seshatsekhentiu (G 2120)
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- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but many fragments were not recorded in any object register book. 1905-1906: Excavated by the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; 1906: assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt.
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- Remarks
- MFA 06.1894 = group of unregistered fragments + 33-2-187 + 38-3-2 + 38-3-3 (only group of unregistered fragments appear in reassembled slab stela shown in Artemis digital image)
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
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Brovarski, Edward. "Inventory Offering Lists and the Nomenclature for Boxes and Chests in the Old Kingdom." In Emily Teeter and John A. Larson, eds. Gold of Praise. Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 58. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1999, pp. 27, 45, notes 2, 78.
Brovarski, Edward. "An Inventory List from 'Covington's Tomb' and Nomenclature for Furniture in the Old Kingdom." In Peter Der Manuelian, ed. Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson 1. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1996, p. 128 (11).
Jánosi, Peter. "Der Tote vor dem Opfertisch. Die Opferplatten von Giza. Besprechung des Buches Slab Stelae of the Giza Necropolis von Peter Der Manuelian." Sokar 10 (1. Halbjahr 2005), pp. 19, 22, 23, note 2.
Manuelian, Peter Der. "A 'New' Slab Stela for Nefer from G 2100? (Giza Archives Project Gleanings: I)." In Stephen E. Thompson and Peter Der Manuelian, eds. Egypt and Beyond: Essays Presented to Leonard H. Lesko upon his Retirement from the Wilbour Chair of Egyptology at Brown University June 2005. Providence: Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies, 2008, p. 228.
Manuelian, Peter Der. Slab Stelae of the Giza Necropolis. Publications of the Pennsylvania–Yale Expedition to Egypt 7. New Haven and Philadelphia: Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2003, pp. 18-19, pls. 17-18, pp. 76-77, figs. 98-99.
Smith, William Stevenson. "The Coffin of Prince Min-Khaf." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 19 (1933), p. 154.
Ancient People
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- Type Owner
- Remarks Owner of G 2120. Limestone slab stela (group of unregistered fragments + 33-2-187 + 38-3-2 + 38-3-3 = MFA 06.1894) inscribed for Seshatsekhentiu; some fragments found east and west of G 2120. Fragments of red granite drum lintel (38-3-11) originally inscribed with name and titles of Seshatsekhentiu; partially preserved titles: [Xrj-(Hb)] lector(-priest), [Hrj-tp ...tjw] chief .... (Seshatsekhen)tiu; found in debris in front of slab stela emplacement in east face of G 2120.
ID: HUMFA_C14141_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2120
Description: Two fragments of limestone slab stela of Seshatsekhentiu from G 2120: 38-3-2 + 38-3-3 (= part of MFA 06.1894).
ID: HUMFA_C13410_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2120
Description: Fragment of limestone slab stela of Seshatsekhentiu in fine relief originally from G 2120, found N of G 2102: 33-2-187 (= part of MFA 06.1894).
ID: HUMFA_A526_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2120
Description: Fragments of limestone slab stela of [GLYPHS] Seshatsekhentiu, some from debris E of G 2100, originally from G 2120: MFA 06.1894. [Image also known as: A5972_NS]
ID: HUMFA_A527_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2120
Description: Fragments of limestone slab stela of [GLYPHS] Seshatsekhentiu, some from debris E of G 2100, originally from G 2120: MFA 06.1894. [Image also known as: A5973_NS]
ID: HUMFA_A7056_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 5562, G 2370, G 2120, G 5020, G 2356
Description: Fragments of relief and inscription: top row: [G 2347 X (= G 5562 A)] 33-2-155, [S of G 2370] 33-1-90a, 33-1-90c, 33-1-90b (fragments of false door); bottom row: [G 2120] 33-2-187 (= part of MFA 06.1894, slab stela of Seshatsekhentiu), [G 5020 B] 33-2-172, [G 2356 A] 33-2-201, 33-2-188
ID: MFAB_AAW1921
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2120
Description: Digital drawing by Peter Der Manuelian: limestone slab stela of Seshatsekhentiu from G 2120 (MFA 06.1894 = group of unregistered fragments + 33-2-187 + 38-3-2 + 38-3-3)
ID: MFAB_AAW2073
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2120
Description: Digital montage and photograph by John Woolf: limestone slab stela of Seshatsekhentiu from G 2120 (MFA 06.1894 = group of unregistered fragments + 33-2-187 + 38-3-2 + 38-3-3)
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