Image: doorjamb from a Theban tomb inscribed with an offering prayer to Re-Harakhty-Atum on behalf of an official, whose name has been erased.Found reused in the Dynasty 26 tomb of Sheshonq;
Note: right door jamb from the same tomb is held in Cairo JE 66284
Provenance
Provenance: EG, Thebes, el-Asasif
Reconstructed provenance: not recorded
Excavation: TT 27; Found reused in the Dynasty 26 tomb of Sheshonq, Museum excavations, 1935–1936.
Location
Location: USA, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Inv no: MMA 36.3.272
Acquisition: acquired by the Museum in the division of finds, 1936
Literature
BMMA 1937 The Egyptian Expedition 1935-1936, Boston, 7, fig. 6; B. Gessler-Löhr 1997 Bemerkungen zur Nekropole des Neuen Reiches von Saqqara vor der Amarna-Zeit II: Gräber der Bürgermeister von Memphis, Oudheidkundige mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden 77, 51–57; W. C. Hayes 1959 Scepter of Egypt II: A Background for the Study of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Hyksos Period and the New Kingdom (1675-1080 B.C.), Cambridge, Mass., 272, fig. 166.
