Bolster-shaped Limestone Lintel, between 2134 and 2040 BCE

  • Egyptian

Limestone

  • Overall: 4 1/2 × 14 3/4 × 3 1/8 inches (11.4 × 37.5 × 7.9 cm)

Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1899

1990.212.3

Inscribed, hieroglyphs: [translated: the deceased Shen-sethi]

excavated, from tomb of Shen-sethi (Dendereh, Egypt)

1897-98, excavated by Flinders Petrie

1899, gifted by the Egypt Exploration Fund

1990-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Egyptian, Bolster-shaped Limestone Lintel, between 2134 and 2040 BCE, limestone. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1899, 1990.212.3.