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Limestone false door tablet of Tjeset

Limestone false door tablet of Tjeset, identified as [rxt nswt Hmt-nTr HwtHr] royal acquaintance, priestess of Hathor. Aus einem Block gefertigte querrechteckige Scheintürtafel mit unterem Querbalken der Scheintür mit Inschriften und Darstellungen in versenktem Relief.

Details

  • ID
    KHM_ÄS_8525
  • Department
    Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
  • Classification
    Architectural elements-False Doors
  • Findspot
    Mastaba of Ankhudja Itji, shaft S 670
  • Material
    Limestone
  • Dimensions
    47 x 68.5 x 14 cm
  • Credit Line
    Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
  • Previous Number
    KHM_8525
  • Object Ownership Information
    Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
  • Period
    Old Kingdom, late Dynasty 6
  • Excavator
    Hermann Junker, German, 1877–1962
  • Owner
    Tjeset (in Ankhudja Itji)
  • Object owned by
    Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
  • Notes
    Herk: Gîza, W-Friedhof, Mastaba des Anchwedja, genannt Izi, Grabung Junker 1914 Erwerb: 1914 durch Fundteilung; 1960 inventarisiert Dias: Ektachrom KHM 2004 Comp.Nr. 50460; NegNr-1: I 12769 NegNr-2: III 26113, Kitlitschka 1993
  • Remarks
    Excavated 1914.

Tombs and Monuments 1

Published Documents 3

Full Bibliography

  • Hölzl, Regina. Reliefs und Inschriftensteine des Alten Reiches 1.Corpus Antiquitatum Aegyptiacarum. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien Ägyptisch-Orientalische Sammlung, Lieferung 18. Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1999, pp. 83-88.

    H. JUNKER, Vorläufiger Bericht über die dritte Grabung bei den Pyramiden von Gizeh vom 3. Januar bis 23. April 1914 (1914) 23-24.

    H. JUNKER, Giza 8 (1947) 136-138, Abb. 64.

    Porter & Moss III, p. 167.

People 2

Ancient People

  • Tjeset (in Ankhudja Itji)

    • Type Owner
    • Remarks Limestone false door tablet (KHM Vienna ÄS 8525) inscribed for Tjeset, identified as [rxt nswt Hm-nTr HwtHr] royal acquaintance, priestess of Hathor; found displaced in mastaba of Ankhudja Itji, shaft S 670.

Modern People

  • 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.

Institutions 1