Egyptian Limestone Relief

An ancient Egyptian painted limestone raised relief fragment depicting the head and shoulder of a man in profile facing right, before him is a column of Hieroglyphic text, reading, “imy-r per,” meaning ‘steward,’ with an incomplete name beginning “Khenty.”

First Intermediate Period - Middle Kingdom, 10th - 11th Dynasty.
Ca. 2100 - 1900 BC.
Length: 8 1/4 in. (21 cm).

Khenty-Kety was a popular male name in the First Intermediate Period.

London art market prior to 1983; with Charles Ede Ltd., London, 1997; subsequently in the David Rowse collection, London.
Published: Charles Ede Ltd, Antiquities, catalogue 164, July, 1997, no. 13.
Inv#: 8587
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