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Fragment of limestone lintel of Bebib

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Bebib

Fragment of limestone false door lintel inscribed for Bebib, identified as "judge, administrator, overseer of scribes;" inscribed with usual funerary offering formula. // Parte di architrave della falsa porta di Bebib. L'iscrizione riporta le usuali formule di offerta in favore del defunto "giudice, amministratore, direttore degli scribi, Bebib", che e' rappresentato stante.

Details

  • ID
    TUR_S.1864
  • Department
    Museo Egizio, Turin
  • Classification
    Architectural elements-False Doors
  • Findspot
    Mastaba of Bebib
  • Material
    Limestone
  • Dimensions
    30 x 163 x 11.5 cm
  • Credit Line
    Museo Egizio, Turin
  • Object Ownership Information
    In the collection of: Museo Egizio, Turin
  • Period
    Old Kingdom
  • Owner
    Bebib (Bebib)
  • Object owned by
    Museo Egizio, Turin

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • Bebib

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Published Documents 1

Full Bibliography

  • Ballerini, Francesco, Notizia sommaria degli scavi della Missione archeologica italiana in Egitto (1903), (manoscritto riprodotto), [non pubbl.], [1903], p. 56

    Curto, Silvio. Gli Scavi Italiani a el-Ghiza (1903). Rome: Centro Per Le Antichitá E La Storia Dell'Arte del Vicino Oriente, 1993, p. 71, fig. 23.

    Porter, B., Moss, R.L.B., Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings, Oxford, 1960, p. 157

People 1

Ancient People

  • Bebib (Bebib)

    • Type Owner
    • Remarks Owner of Bebib (unnumbered mastaba excavated by Schiaparelli). Lintel (Turin S.1864) and drum lintel inscribed for Bebib, identified as [sAb aD-mr nj-nst-xntt jmj-r sSw] judge and administrator, preeminent of place, overseer of scribes; found in mastaba of Bebib.

Institutions 1