Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: S 2503, Sanekhen
Fragment of tablet and cross bar from false door of Sanekhen and Maakherui
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- ID
- RPM_3047
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- Department
- Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim
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- Classification
- Architectural elements-False Doors
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- Findspot
- Over S 2503
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- Material
- Nummulitic limestone
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- Dimensions
- 74.5 x 51 x 14 cm
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- Credit Line
- Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim
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- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6
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- Attested
- Maakherui (in Sanekhen)
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- Excavator
- Hermann Junker, German, 1877–1962
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- Owner
- Sanekhen (Sanekhen)
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- Object owned by
- Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim
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- Remarks
- RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): Sanekhen (Sanekhen), Maakherui (in Sanekhen), Hermann Junker; RELATED SITE(S): S 2503, Sanekhen
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Martin, Karl. Reliefs des Alten Reiches und verwandte Denkmäler. Teil 3. Corpus Antiquitatum Aegyptiacarum. Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim, Lieferung 8. Mit Beiträgen von Peter Kaplony. Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1980, pp. 59-64.
Ancient People
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Wife of Sanekhen (owner of Sanekhen, unnumbered mastaba excavated by Junker). False door inscribed for Sanekhen and his wife Maakherui; Maakherui identified as [rxt nswt jmj-r pr] royal acquaintance, steward; drum lintel found in situ in mastaba of Sanekhen, fragment of tablet and crossbar (= lower lintel) (Hildesheim 3047) found reused in shaft S 2503.
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- Type Owner
- Remarks Owner of Sanekhen (unnumbered mastaba excavated by Junker). False door inscribed for Sanekhen and his wife Maakherui; Sanekhen identified as [rx nswt ATw] royal acquaintance, atju-official; drum lintel found in situ in mastaba of Sanekhen, fragment of tablet and crossbar (= lower lintel) (Hildesheim 3047) found reused in shaft S 2503.
Modern People
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- 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.
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Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim
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