Digital Giza | Offering stone with two small basins

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

Inscribed limestone offering stone of Inpuhetep, with two small basins

ID

RPM_3042
Department

Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim
Classification

Tomb equipment-Offering tables and basins
Findspot

Inpuhetep, in front of S false door
Material

Nummulitic limestone
Dimensions

14.3 x 36.5 x 31 cm
Credit Line

Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim
Period

Old Kingdom, Late Dynasty 6
Excavator

Hermann Junker, German, 1877–1962
Owner

Inpuhetep (Inpuhetep)
Object owned by

Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim
Remarks

RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): Inpuhetep (Inpuhetep), Hermann Junker; RELATED SITE(S): Inpuhetep

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. 52-55.

Inpuhetep (Inpuhetep)
- Type Owner
- Remarks Owner of Inpuhetep (unnumbered mastaba excavated by Junker). Architectural elements (chapel entrance lintel and drum lintel) inscribed for Inpuhetep; also appears on chapel entrance east and west door jambs (on east jamb reveal, as eldest son of Itjer); in situ in mastaba of Inpuhetep. Offering stone with two rectangular basins and raised relief Htp-sign (Hildesheim 3042) inscribed for Inpuhetep; found in situ in front of south false door in mastaba of Inpuhetep chapel. Identifed (variously) as [rx nswt jnpw sH-nTr Hm-nTr wt] royal acquaintance, priest of the divine booth of Anubis, embalmer.

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.

Offering stone with two small basins