Related: Block of wall painting from tomb of Akhmerutnisut
Result 9 of 295
Site: Giza; view: G 2184

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This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. Excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt.
Block of wall painting from tomb of Akhmerutnisut
Findspot: Western Cemetery, Mastaba G 2184, chapel, inner room, W wall, N end
Limestone, pigment
Dimensions/Weight: Overall: 49.5 x 49.5 x 17.5 cm (19 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.)
Classification: Relief
Description: Limestone block (interior corner block) with one complete and one incomplete horizontal register on one surface; upper register depicts two trees with goat standing on its hind legs reaching toward tree on right, lower register includes two partial figures (on right: head and shoulder of figure facing left; on left: head, shoulders, and upper back of cow facing right); surface decoration much faded.
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Remarks: Portion of wall painting illustrated in Firth watercolor MFA 12.1530 (see A779). Wall paintings almost entirely effaced by water damage in shipboard fire during transport to Boston.