Relief inscribed with a Harper's Song Artist: Unknown

1303–1085 B.C.

Ancient Art

Not on view
Medium

Limestone

Dimensions

17 × 26 in. (43.2 × 66.1 cm)

Credit Line

Anonymous gift

Accession Number

1937.126

Culture

Egyptian

Period

Dynasties 19–20

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
Andre Bircher, Cairo, 1920. Simpson (below) suggests this piece originally came from a northern necropolis. The phrase 'nh t;wy given in the song noramlly refers to Memphis (cf. Faulkner, 1962, p. 44).
Bibliography
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 258, ill
  • Gerry D. Scott, III, Ancient Egyptian Art at Yale, 1st (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 133–34, no. 75, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

reliefs

Inscriptions

1) sw-n-r mAa-xrw [nDm] ib=k tw.k Htp.ti\r\n2) m imntt Hrt m anx-tAwy\r\n3) iy n sp tpy imntt nfrt n kA=k Htp\r\n4) bA=k m Xnw=s nis.tw=k in Xry-Hbt hrw wAH xt Wsir sw-n\r\n5) [r ...]\r\n\r\nTranslation\r\n1. "O Su-en-ro, the vindicated! May your heart [be pleasant], now that you are resting\r\n2. in the West, (in) your tomb in Ankh-tawy.\r\n3. The first occasion of the goodly West has come for your ka\r\n4. May your ba rest within it when you are surrounded by the lector priest on the day of the deposition of offerings, O Osiris Su-en-\r\n5. [ro.]"

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