Object owner details: MFA

Findspot: Western Cemetery, Pit G 2421 X, door block (reused), [possibly originally from G 2184]

Limestone

Expedition Measurements: Height: 15 cm Length: 92 cm

Description: White limestone offering basin; incised inscription, [made from part of door lintel inscribed for Akhmerutnisut with incised hetep di nisut [Htp dj nswt] offering formula]. Illustration: Yes with hieroglyphs

Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition

Selected Published References:
D'Auria, Sue, Peter Lacovara, and Catharine H. Roehrig. Mummies & Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1988, p. 87.

Remarks: Roth (Mummies & Magic, p. 87) suggests: "If this lintel was not taken from the tomb of the elder [Akhmerutnisut] (there is no obvious place in that tomb to restore it), it may have been taken from a lost chapel built by his son."