Collection place: Giza Governorate, Egypt / Culture or time period: Dynastic Period, Egypt (ca. 3000–343 BC) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled False door, accession number 6-19805, described as False door from a tomb. Top lintel has a couple seated before an offering table, inscribed for Keki. Inner leaves of the door depict several relatives or offering bearers. Parts of inscription are damaged.

Hearst Museum object titled False door, accession number 6-19830, described as False door of a woman, Iy, two outer panels and one inner door panel. Inner lintel has woman seated in front of an offering table. Female figures smelling lotus blossoms at the base of the four outer panels. Htp di nswt inpw xnt nTr (?) [???] f r Krs m Xrt-nTr, Htp di nswt wsr nb Ddw prt-xrw n.s t Hnkt (?) m Hb nb nfr Dt, imAxwt xr ptH-skr iy, imAxwt xr Hwt-Hr nb mnmnt (?) iy, rxt nswt imAxwt xr nTr aA iy, ([???])[ nfr di xntt tA xAswt (?) imAxwt iy.

Hearst Museum object titled False door, accession number 6-19827, described as Raised relief panel with a standing woman. She wears a flowered headdress and a v-necked sheath dress. She holds her proper right hand to her chest, and holds a lotus blossom in her left hand. A smaller female figure faces towards her in the same pose, labeled: Tntt. Top inscription: mitrt (?) nfr Sm. Part of 6-19831.

Hearst Museum object titled False door fragment, accession number 6-19831, described as Two fragments of the left panel of a false door. Top section has feet of the stool from a seated offering scene. Below that is half of the inscribed lintel, then half of the inscribed door roll. Lower left panel has striding male figure with proper left hand to his chest. He wears a short curled wig, leopard skin, and kilt. Part of 6-19827.

Hearst Museum object titled Group statue, accession number 6-19763, described as Three fragments of a seated family group statue. Torso of a woman with shoulder length wig and broadcollar, with proper right arm around shoulders of her husband. Torso of a man with short curled wig and the fragmentary hand of his wife on his proper right shoulder. Half of base with lap and legs of female figure. Half of base with the lap and legs of the man preserved, as well as bottom half of a nude child who would have stood between the woman's and man's legs. Inscribed for the chief of the treasury Mertash and his son Senenu. Vertically on side of base: rx nswt imAxw xr nTr aA imi-r pr HD mrt AS, "the acquaintance of the king, revered in the presence of the great god, chief of the treasury, Mertash." In front of the boy: sA.f wr sS snnw, "his eldest son, the scribe Senenu." (translation from Lutz 1930)