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Relief Block Depicting Old Kingdom Officials Prostrating Themselves, from the Pyramid of Amenemhet I at Lisht

Relief Block Depicting Old Kingdom Officials Prostrating Themselves, from the Pyramid of Amenemhet I at Lisht

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Relief Block Depicting Old Kingdom Officials Prostrating Themselves, from the Pyramid of Amenemhet I at Lisht
Artist
CultureEgyptian
Titles
  • Relief Block Depicting Old Kingdom Officials Prostrating Themselves, from the Pyramid of Amenemhet I at Lisht
Date2630–2250 BC
MediumLimestone with traces of polychromy
DimensionsOverall: 18 1/4 × 38 1/4 × 4 1/4 in. (46.4 × 97.2 × 10.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number58.3.A
Non exposé

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Department
Antiquities
Object Type
ProvenanceExcavated by the Egyptian Excavation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, c. 1913–1915; acquired through the division of finds by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession number 15.3.1138), 1915–1958; purchased by MFAH, 1958.
Exhibition History"The Egyptian Mummy: Unwrapping the Mystery," Houston Museum of Natural Science, from March 23–August 27,1989 (LN: 89.14).
Published References Hans Goedicke, Re-Used Blocks from the Pyramid of Amenemhet I at Lisht (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition, 1972), 82–84, no.46.

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