About the Artwork
Chapel Wall of Mery-nesut
between 2565 and 2420 BCE
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Egyptian
Egyptian
Carved limestone
Overall (as displayed): 74 × 122 × 11 inches (188 × 309.9 × 27.9 cm) Sight: 23 × 31 × 6 inches (58.4 × 78.7 × 15.2 cm)
Sculpture
African Art
Founders Society Purchase, McGregor Fund
71.292.K
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Markings
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Provenance
ca. 1901-1905, excavated by George A. Fischer and the Harvard-Boston expedition from tomb of Mery-nesut (Giza necropolis, Al Haram, Egypt)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, Massachusettes, USA)
1971-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Smith. Egyptian Sculpture and Painting in the Old Kingdom. London, 1946, p. 65.
Bulletin of the DIA 51, no. 2 and 3 (1972): pp. 63-80 (ill.).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Egyptian, Chapel Wall of Mery-nesut, between 2565 and 2420 BCE, carved limestone. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, McGregor Fund, 71.292.K.
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