Wall Fragment from a Tomb Depicting Offering Bearers

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Arts of Africa

First Intermediate Period, Dynasty 10 (about 2186–2061 BCE)

Egyptian; Saqqara, tomb of Hetepmeret

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Africa

Artist: Ancient Egyptian
Title: Wall Fragment from a Tomb Depicting Offering Bearers
Place: Egypt (Artist's nationality)
Date: 2186 BCE–2061 BCE
Medium: Limestone and pigment
Inscriptions: "the revered in the presence of Anubis...Merethotep." Name: Hetep-meret (female)
Dimensions: 95.9 × 35.6 × 7.6 cm (37 3/4 × 14 × 3 in.)
Credit Line: W. Moses Willner Fund
Reference Number: 1910.225
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Art Institute of Chicago, Thirty-second Annual Report: June 1, 1910–June 1, 1911 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1911), pp. 19, 62.
Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of The Egyptian Collection (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p. 32 (ill.), 35.
Khaled Daoud, Necropoles Memphiticae: Inscriptions from the Herakleopolitan Period (Alexandria: Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2011), 259, fig. 82.

The Art Institute of Chicago, acquired in 1910.

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