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An Important Egyptian Limestone False Door of Iat

excerpts from hieroglyphic invocation:

"An offering (which) the king gives (together with) Anubis, who is on his mountain, who is in his bandages, lord of the sacred land (that is), an invocation offering / for the one honored by the great god, the official of the granary, the king's confidant, ... the one honored by Ptah, ... the one honored by Osiris ..., Iat"

Old Kingdom, Dynasty VI (ca. 2345-2195 BC)
Height: 102.9 cm. (40 1/2 in.)
Width: 71.1 cm. (28 in.)

ex: private European collection, early 1960's

Published:
Antiquarium Ltd.; The Good Life. Luxury Objects of the Ancient World (New York, 1999) p.11

Comparanda:
Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim; Corpus antiquitatum Aegyptiacarum. Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim Lief. 7: Reliefs des Alten Reiches (t.2) (CAA) (Mainz, 1979) no.3179; 3046