This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 1912: Excavated by the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; 1912: assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt. (Accession Date: April 28, 2005)

Findspot: Western Cemetery, Mastaba G 2175, chapel of Khnumnefer, N wall

Dimensions/Weight: Overall: 193 x 260 x 40cm (76 x 102 3/8 x 15 3/4in.) Other (individual block): 51 x 19 x 34 cm (20 1/16 x 7 1/2 x 13 3/8 in.) - left corner measurement Other: 51 x 60 x 24 cm (20 1/16 x 23 5/8 x 9 7/16 in.)

Classification: Relief

Description: Block of limestone relief from scene of tomb owner, Khnumnefer, his wife Ankhesenptah(?) and three children, Menkaure-weser, Hepetka, and Nikauneith, with procession of dancing girls and offering bearers; depicts hand and lower body of tomb owner's wife, holding lotus by stem that loops around her right hand, includes name and upper portion of figure of tomb owner's daughter Nikauneith grasping right her mother's right leg; executed in fine low raised relief; block itself juts forward on left edge, forming corner, part of left edge of scene.

Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition

Selected Published References:
Smith, William Stevenson. Ancient Egypt as Represented in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1960 (6th ed.), p. 38.