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Summary of This Activity |
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Where
did this relief come from? |
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The relief of Akhty-hotep comes
from his tomb (mastaba) at Saqqara, a cemetery in the high desert
several miles west of the ancient capital of Memphis.
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This floorplan and elevation
show the layout of Akhty-hotep’s tomb. In 1860, when the
tomb was still intact, the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette
(1821–1881) wrote a brief description of it. In the 1940s,
the Egyptologist William Stevenson Smith explored the tomb and
documented its measurements. The floorplan is based on the work
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Relief of Akhty-hotep
Limestone, 36 1/8 x 23 11/16
in. (91.8 x 60.2 cm)
Early Old Kingdom, late Dynasty 3–
early Dynasty 4, circa 2650–2600 B.C.
From Saqqara
57.178, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund |
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Relief of Akhty-hotep from his
tomb at Saqqara; formerly in the E. and M. Kofler-Truniger
Collection, Lucerne, Switzerland |
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Relief with two images of Akhty-hotep
from his tomb at Saqqara; The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Purchase, Funds from Various Donors, 1958. (58.123) Photograph,
all rights reserved, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
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Relief of Akhty-hotep from his
tomb at Saqqara; Purchased with funds from the Libbey
Endowment, of Edward Drummond Libbey, 59.39; Photograph
© Toledo Museum of Art, all rights reserved. |
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Relief of Akhty-hotep from his
tomb at Saqqara; Purchased with funds from the Libbey
Endowment, of Edward Drummond Libbey, 59.40; Photograph
© Toledo Museum of Art, all rights reserved. |
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Relief of three personified estates
bringing offerings to Akhty-hotep from his tomb at Saqqara;
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Purchase, Funds from Various
Donors, 1958. (58.44.2AB) Photograph, all rights reserved,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
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These limestone reliefs once
lined the mud-brick walls of Akhty-hotep's offering chapel.
They are now in various museum collections around the world.
The reliefs show Akhty-hotep ready to partake magically of the
offerings left for him in his chapel.
Although the reliefs had been removed by the time Smith explored
the tomb in the 1940s, Egyptologists have been able to analyze
the details to determine their original placement. |
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