Unknown Egyptian
Pair of Reliefs depicting Ankh-neb-ef

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Artist Unknown Egyptian

CultureEgyptian

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Pair of Reliefs depicting Ankh-neb-ef
Relief of Ankh-neb-ef

Date2345–2181 BC

MediumLimestone, pigment

Dimensions.1: 44 x 20 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. (111.8 x 51.4 x 3.8 cm)
.2: 38 1/2 x 22 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. (97.8 x 56.5 x 3.8 cm)
Mounted, with base: 70 1/4 x 22 x 14 in. (178.4 x 55.9 x 35.6 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by The Brown Foundation, Inc., Nancy B. Negley, Mr. and Mrs. Meredith J. Long, Isabel B. and Wallace S. Wilson, and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. in honor of Norna Sarofim, with additional funds provided by the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund

Object number2007.384.1,.2

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Antiquities

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ProvenanceCount of Montalembert estate collection, early-1900s; private collection, 1970s; purchased by [Nikolas Koutoulakis, Paris and Geneva, 1980s]; [Jean-Luc Chalmin, London, by at least 1988–1998]; [Sotheby's, New York, June 4, 1998, lot 38]; Hadji Soleimani, London, 1998; [Robert Haber & Associates, Inc., New York, by 2007]; purchased by MFAH, 2007.
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This is Ankh-neb-ef, a tenant of the Pyramid Estate of Pharaoh Pepy II, revered under the Great God who is Lord of the Sky. The lector-priest Ankh-neb-ef warns, "Those who shall pull any stone from my tomb will be judged by the Great God. I am a skilled priest, the revered one, Ankh-neb-ef."

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