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Senedjemib Complex: eleven fragments of relief and inscriptions from G 2382 (originally thought to be a tomb, but now known to be a jumbled deposit of limestone blocks from other nearby tombs): top row: [] __-__-__, [originally from G 2381] 13-1-558o (= MFA 13.5830.9); middle row: [originally from G 2381] 13-1-558h (= MFA 13.4348.6, one of several fragments of this block), [] __-__-__, [originally from G 2381] 13-1-558o (= MFA 13.5830.12), [] __-__-__, [attributed to G 2381] 13-1-558a (= MFA 13.5985); bottom row: [originally from G ____] 13-1-558aa (= MFA 13.5839), [originally from G ____] 13-1-558aa (= MFA 13.5885), [attributed to G 2381] 13-1-558v (= MFA 13.5933, vertical inscription), [originally from G 2381] 13-1-558l (= MFA 13.5936.9)

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_B1623_NS
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Subjects
    Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2382, G 2381
  • Date
    01/04/1913
  • Remarks
    MFA 13.4348 (overall): composed of left door jamb (standing figure of Nekhebu, 13-1-551) and section of facade (ceremonial dancers and offering bearers, original registration number unknown, assigned 13-1-558). MFA 13.5830 (overall): Nekhebu seated in carrying chair on poles supported by at least twelve men, two men carry sun shades and others carry poles supporting canopy over chair, among them are dwarfs with dogs; five registers of figures make up this procession; consists of thirty-six blocks and fragments (one fragment from 13-1-555, four fragments from 13-1-556, one fragment from 13-1-558, thirty fragments original registration number unknown, assigned 13-1-558); one additional fragment (from 13-1-556) not MFA owned. MFA 13.5936 (overall): seated figure of Nekhebu (facing right), vertical columns of inscription above (original position to left of section of facade with ceremonial dancers and offering bearers MFA 13.4348); consists of nine fragments (original registration number unknown, assigned 13-1-558). MFA 13.5933: four joining fragments of vertical inscription (original registration number unknown, assigned 13-1-558) accessioned as MFA 13.5930 + MFA 13.5931 + MFA 13.5932 + MFA 13.5933.
  • Problems/Questions
    VERIFIED: for those identified: identifications made based on Brovarski composites; provenance for unidentified fragments from G 2381 per Brovarski composites; MFA accession numbers verified

Tombs and Monuments 2

  • G 2381

    • Site Name Western Cemetery
  • G 2382

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Finds 6