Bolster-shaped Limestone Lintel, between 2323 and 2150 BCE

  • Egyptian

Limestone

  • Overall: 2 × 12 × 2 inches (5.1 × 30.5 × 5.1 cm)

Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1899

1990.216

Inscribed, hieroglyhs: [translated: Tzwti]

excavted from tomb of Tzwti (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 2323 and 2150 BCE, limestone. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1899, 1990.216.