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Female Offering Bearer with Text of the Major of Thebes, Mentuemhat
Female Offering Bearer with Text of the Major of Thebes, Mentuemhat

Female Offering Bearer with Text of the Major of Thebes, Mentuemhat

Object number53.76
ProvenanceTomb of Mentuemhat, Thebes; [Paul Mallon, Cairo / New York]; purchased from Mr. Mallon by Seattle Art Museum / Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, Seattle, Washington, February 19, 1953
Published ReferencesTeeter, Emily, Egyptian Art in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1988, no. 8, pp. 14-15 Der Manuelian, Peter, An Essay in Reconstruction: Two Registers from the Tomb of Mentuemhat at Thebes (no. 34), in Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts Abteilung Kairo, Band 39 (1983), Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz/Rhein Lesko, Barbara S., Three Reliefs from the Tomb of Mentuemhat, in Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Vol. 9, 1971-72, pp. 85-88, illus. fig. 2 Porter, Bertha and Rosalind L.B. Moss, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings, Vol. 1, The Theban Necropolis Part I, Private Tombs, Second Edition, Oxford 1960 Leclunt, Jean, Montouemhat, (Institut Francais d'Archeologie Oriental, Bibliotheque d'Etude, T. XXXV) Le Cairo: Institut Francais, 1961, p. 185, m; p. 60
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions6 5/8 x 7 5/16 in. (16.8 x 18.5 cm)
MediumLimestone with pigment
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