Object owner details: MFA accession numbers: 13.4348.1–13.4348.4, 13.4348.6–13.4348.12

Findspot: Western Cemetery, [G 2382] [(originally thought to be a tomb, but now known to be a jumbled deposit of limestone blocks from other nearby tombs)], [Senedjemib complex] court, [originally from G 2381]

Limestone

Description: Miscellaneous fragments of [various] limestone [reliefs]: [h) eleven blocks and fragments with registers of ceremonial dancers and offering bearers]. Illustration: No

Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition

Selected Published References:
Brovarski, Edward. "A Second Style in Egyptian Relief of the Old Kingdom." In Stephen E. Thomson and Peter Der Manuelian, eds. Egypt and Beyond. Essays Presented to Leonard H. Lesko upon his Retirement from the Wilbour Chair of Egyptology at Brown University June 2005, Providence: Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies, 2008, pp. 51-55, notes 23, 24, 30, figs. 1a-b, 2a-b, pl. Ia-b. Dunham, Dows. "The Biographical Inscriptions of Nekhebu in Boston and Cairo." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 24 (1938), pp. 1-8.

Remarks: A quantity of relief fragments originally from G 2381, with unknown object registration numbers have been arbitrarily assigned this number (13-1-558). MFA 13.4348 (overall): consists of left door jamb (standing figure of Nekhebu facing left, 13-1-551) and adjoining wall (section of facade, ceremonial dancers and offering bearers, original registration number unknown, assigned 13-1-558h); section of facade with registers of ceremonial dancers and offering bearers (13-1-558h) composed of eleven blocks and fragments accessioned as MFA 13.4348.1, MFA 13.4348.2, MFA 13.4348.3, MFA 13.4348.4, MFA 13.4348.6, MFA 13.4348.7, MFA 13.4348.8, MFA 13.4348.9, MFA 13.4348.10, MFA 13.4348.11, MFA 13.4348.12; end faces of some corner blocks of this section of facade (13-1-558h) have parts of door jamb (13-1-551); these include: MFA 13.4348.2, MFA 13.4348.3, MFA 13.4348.4.