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Site: Giza; View: G 2150

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  • Site: Giza; view: G 2150
  • Site: Giza; view: G 2150
  • Site: Giza; view: G 2150, G 7510
  • Site: Giza; view: G 2150
  • Site: Giza; view: G 2150
  • Site: Giza; view: G 2150
  • Site: Giza; view: G 2150
  • Site: Giza; view: G 2150
  • Site: Giza; view: G 2150
  • Site: Giza; view: G 2150
  • Site: Giza; view: G 2150
Object register entry:
Field number: 32-12-7
Entry date(s): 12/28/1932
Object owner details: MFA accession number: 34.58
Blocks of limestone door jamb from tomb of Kanefer
Findspot: Western Cemetery, Debris between G 2150 and G 2170 (in 1905/1906 buried on top of G 2150), originally from G 2150
Limestone
Expedition Measurements: Width: a) 22 cm; b) 23 cm; c) 67 cm Length: a) 117 cm; b) 110 cm; c) 87 cm Thickness: a) 45 cm; b) 30; c) 50 cm
Description: [Three blocks of] limestone [relief from] left (south) door jamb [and adjoining facade]; [depicting upper portion of seated figure of Kanefer being presented document by scribe Wehemka, and on door jamb and facade faces registers of scribes and offering bearers, three identified as overseer of ka-priests Ptahwer, ka-priests Redienptah and Seneb, and section of adjoining facade depicting Kanefer's son Kasewedja], inscribed; in several pieces. Illustration: Yes with hieroglyphs
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Selected Published References:
Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, figs. 262, 264.
Remarks: Portions of south door jamb and facade still in situ in G 2150.
Problems/Questions: MFA accession number verified