Drum lintel of Niwety | Yale University Art Gallery

2494–2181 B.C.

Not on view

Medium: Limestone
Dimensions: 9 1/4 × 25 1/4 in. (23.5 × 64.2 cm)
Height of Reed Leaf: 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm)
Credit Line: Anonymous gift
Accession Number: 1937.132
Culture: Egyptian, Giza
Period: Dynasties 5–6
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

From Giza, Mastaba no. G4611 of Reisner,
No. 50 of Lepsius
Purchased by Ludlow Bull from Andre Bircher, Cairo, 1920.

Bibliography

Gerry D. Scott, III, Ancient Egyptian Art at Yale, 1st (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 47, no. 21, ill

Bertha Porter and Rosalind L.B. Moss, "Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglypic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings: Memphis," Topographical Bibliography 3, no. 1 (1974), 133, pl. L.26 (1)

Henry G. Fischer, "Old Kingdom Inscriptions in the Yale Gallery," Mitteilunged des Instituts für Orientforschung 7, no. 3 (1960), 299–315, pl. 3B, ill

Richard Lepsius, Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien, 2 (Berlin: Nicoli, 1913), 73, pl. 50, fig. 89a

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Additional information

Inscriptions

smr w'ty hrp 'h Niwty; "The Confidant and Palace Administrator, Niwety"

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