About the Artwork
Long Narrow Rectangular Limestone Lintel
between 2134 and 2040 BCE
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Egyptian
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Limestone
Overall: 6 × 21 × 3 1/8 inches (15.2 × 53.3 × 7.9 cm)
Inscription
African Art
Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1899
1990.212.1B
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, hieroglyphs, cut in sunk relief: [translated: in all this land, but did this as my exemplary duty, doing what my lord praised.]
Provenance
excavated from tomb of Shen-sethi (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)
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Egyptian, Long Narrow Rectangular Limestone Lintel, between 2134 and 2040 BCE, limestone. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1899, 1990.212.1B.
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