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Limestone relief
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Title/s | Limestone relief |
Category |
architectural element
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Name |
relief
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Description | block from tomb. Intkaes, priestess of Hathor and Neith is accompanied by her daughters, Henutsen, Niankhbastet, Nikauhathor and Niankhhathor; a small figure of a naked girl, named Neferpedjes is shown with her arm around Intkaes's leg |
Field Collection |
Giza ? Egypt |
Dimensions |
length 77
cm
width 48
cm
thickness 12
cm
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Period | Fifth Dynasty
Sixth Dynasty
Old Kingdom
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Date | 2504 B.C. — 2216 B.C. |
Inscriptions/Marks | -
inscription
Position: top, right hand part
Method: carved
Content: Hm(t) nTr HwtHr Hm(t)-nTr nt int-kAs
Translation: The priestess of Hathor and priestess of Neith, Int-kaes
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inscription
Position: top, left hand part
Method: carved
Content: zA(w)t.s Hnwtsn ny-anx-bAstt
Translation: Her daughters Henutsen and Niankhbastet
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inscription
Position: above girl, bottom right
Method: carved
Content: nfr-pDs
Translation: Neferpedjes
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inscription
Position: bottom centre and bottom left
Method: carved
Content: zA(w)t.s ny-kAw-HwtHr
ny-anx-HwtHr
Translation: Her daughters Nikauhathor and Niankhhathor
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Documentation | -
Strudwick, N.
A slab of int-kAs in the Fitzwilliam Museum
[page: ]
Source title: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (1987)
[comments: with pl.XIII] - (1995) [page: 20-1 [6]]
[comments: no.6, p.20] -
Wilkinson, T.
(2005)
Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Ancient Egypt
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Thames &Hudson
(2005) : Thames &Hudson [page: 263]
[comments: ] -
Malek, Jaromír
(2007)
Topographical bibliography of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts, statues, reliefs and paintings. Vol. 8 Objects of provenance not known. Part 3 Stelae (Early Dynastic Period to Dynasty XVII)
, Oxford :
Griffith Institute
(2007) Oxford: Griffith Institute [page: 20]
[comments: 803-011-250]
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Material/s |
limestone |
Accession Number | E.7.1909 (Antiquities)
(Reference Number: 51005; Input Date: 2003-03-25 / Last Edit: 2011-07-12) |
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