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Lintel and drum of Itji

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: Itji & Neferseshemes

Limestone lintel and drum inscribed for Itji

Details

  • ID
    CBE_ABM_445
  • Department
    Abu Bakr Expedition
  • Classification
    Architectural elements-Doors, jambs, lintels
  • Findspot
    Originally from mastaba complex of Itji & Neferseshemes
  • Material
    Limestone
  • Credit Line
    Abu Bakr Expedition
  • Period
    Old Kingdom
  • Excavator
    Abdel Moneim Youssef Abu Bakr, 1907–1976
  • Owner
    Itji (Itji & Neferseshemes)
  • Remarks
    Several lintels (ABM 444-447), drums (ABM 450, unnumbered), and a false door panel (ABM 449) inscribed for and/or depicting Itji and his wife Neferseshemes were rediscovered by the Cairo-Brown Expedition in the Abu Bakr Magazine.

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Ancient People

  • Itji (Itji & Neferseshemes)

    • Type Owner
    • Remarks Co-owner (with his wife Nefersehsemes) of a complex of three small mastabas (ABC 96, ABC 90, ABC 102-103) in the central sector of the Abu Bakr Cemetery. Several lintels (ABM 444-447), drums (ABM 450, unnumbered), and a false door panel (ABM 449) inscribed for or depicting Itji, identified as [xrp fnxw rx nswt] director of carpenters, royal acquaintance; one drum (unnumbered) found deposited in front of ABC 102-103 (after initial clearance by Abu Bakr), the rest rediscovered in the Abu Bakr Magazine.

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