Digital Giza | Fragments of relief

62 fragments of relief

ID

RPM_4861
Department

Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim
Classification

Architectural elements-Relief
Findspot

Lepsius 53
Material

Limestone
Credit Line

Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim
Period

Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6
Excavator

Hermann Junker, German, 1877–1962
Owner

Seshemnefer [IV] (Lepsius 53)
Object owned by

Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim
Remarks

RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): Seshemnefer [IV] (Lepsius 53), Hermann Junker; RELATED SITE(S): Lepsius 53

Martin, Karl. Reliefs des Alten Reiches. Teil 2. Corpus Antiquitatum Aegyptiacarum. Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim, Lieferung 7. Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1979, 148-175.

Seshemnefer [IV] (Lepsius 53)
- Type Owner
- Remarks Owner of Lepsius 53. Two seated statues in forecourt (on either side of exterior chapel entrance), inscribed [smr watj sSmnfr] sole companion Seshemnefer; in situ in Lepsius 53. Interior chapel entrance lintel and drum lintel and false door (in room c) inscribed for Seshemnefer; also appears in chapel relief (in most instances name not preserved, only lower portions of walls preserved) and displaced fragmentary block of relief (Hildesheim 3190) depicted as statue; identified as [xrp nstj m pr-anx Hrj-sStA n mdt nb sStA nt nswt HqA bAt] director of the two thrones in the Mansion of Life, secretary of all secret commands of the king, chief of Bat; in situ in Lepsius 53 (block found in Lepsius 53). Possibly same individual as Seshemnefer (in G 5170), eldest son of Seshemnefer [III] (owner of G 5170).

Hermann Junker
- Type Excavator
- Nationality & Dates German, 1877–1962
- Remarks Egyptologist, Director of German-Austrian expedition to Giza, 1911–1929. Published 12 volumes of final excavation reports from Giza expedition. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.

Fragments of relief