Box with Lid

ca. 1956-1872 BCE (Middle Kingdom)

18 cm 11.6 cm 10.5 cm

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This unusual container, in the form of a miniature shrine or shrine-shaped sarcophagus, was made for an important official, the treasurer and steward Neter-isy, and his wife Nub-em-seshy. Since the lid is inscribed with an offering text and Neter-isy is called "the justified,"...

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Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from Aswan]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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