On view
Ancient Mediterranean Art
Jamb from the right side of a false door,
2278–2184 BCE
Egyptian
Old Kingdom, ca. 2575–2130 BCE, 6th Dynasty , probably the reign of Pepy II, ca. 2246–2152 BCE, ca. 2323–2150 BCE
y1954-45
Information
Title
Jamb from the right side of a false door
Dates
2278–2184 BCE
Medium
Limestone
Dimensions
62.0 x 25.2 x 2.7 cm (24 7/16 x 9 15/16 x 1 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection
Object Number
y1954-45
Place Made
Africa, Egypt
Culture
Period
Type
Materials
Subject
Purchased from Mathias Komor in 1954.
- Frances Follin Jones, "The Princeton Art Museum: antiquities received in recent years", Archaeology 7, no. 4 (Dec., 1954): p. 237-243., p. 239
- "Recent acquisitions", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 14, no. 1 (1955): p. 17-19., p. 18
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The Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr. Memorial Collection (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 1956)
, no. 40[? -obscured on card] - Edward Brovarski, "A second style in Egyptian relief of the Old Kingdom". in S. E. Thompson and P. Der Manuelian, eds., Egypt and beyond: essays presented to Leonard H. Lesko upon his retirement from the Wilbour Chair of Egyptology at Brown University, June 2005, (Providence, RI: Dept. of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies, Brown University, 2008)., cat. no. B10, p. 63; pl. 4f; p. 78-79, pl. 8d; p. 88.
