Chapel Wall of Mery-nesut

between 2565 and 2420 BCE

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Egyptian: Preparing for the Afterlife, Level 1, West Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Chapel Wall of Mery-nesut

Artwork Date between 2565 and 2420 BCE

Artist ----------

Life Dates ----------

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Egyptian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Carved limestone

Dimensions Overall (as displayed): 74 × 122 × 11 inches (188 × 309.9 × 27.9 cm) Sight: 7 × 17 × 6 inches (17.8 × 43.2 × 15.2 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department African Art

Credit Founders Society Purchase, McGregor Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 71.292.A

Markings

Inscriptions Inscribed: [The inscriptions at the left above the main funerary scene identify Mery-nesut and his wife; just to the right of this scene is the long offering list. The false door texts and those surrounding it carry the titles and names of Mery-nesut, his family, the funerary priests, and a short list of funerary offerings. For translation and transliteration, see Fischer, Henry G. "Offerings for an Old Kingdom Granary Official," in BDIA. Vol. 51, Nos. 2 and 3, 1972. pp. 69-80.]

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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Published References

Reisner, George A. Unpublished field notes from excavation in the files of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston, ca. 1904-1910, pp. 1-6.

Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis, vol. I. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1942, p. 382.

Smith. Egyptian Sculpture and Painting in the Old Kingdom. London, 1946, p. 65.

Bulletin of the DIA 51, no. 1 (1972): pp. 9-10.

Bulletin of the DIA 51, no. 2/3 (1972): pp. 63-80 (ill.).

Smith, William Stevenson. History of Egyptian Sculpture and Painting in the Old Kingdom, 2nd ed. New York: Hacker, 1978, p. 65.

PM III. pp. 61, 353.

Peck. 1978, pp. 15, 17.

Peck. 1983, p. 5 (ill.).

Peck, William H. "A Cross-Section of Ancient Art." Apollo 124, no. 298 (December 1986): pp. 12, 14 (ill.).

Peck. 1991b, p. 23.

Peck. 1991a, pp. 15, 18, 68, (ill.).

Cherpion, Nadine. Sentiment Comjugal et Figuration a l'Ancien Empire. In Kunst der Alten Reiches [proceeded of the symposium at the German Archaeological Institute]. Cairo, October 29-30, 1991, pp. 33-47, [cf. p. 33, (pl. 2c)].

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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.A.