Statue Group of Nen-kheft-ka and His Wife, Nefer-shemes

ca. 2350 BCE (Old Kingdom, late 5th dynasty)

31 cm 54.5 cm 22.3 cm

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Found in a rock-cut tomb at Deshasheh, located about seventy miles to the south of modern Cairo, this pair statue of the mayor Nen-kheft-ka and his wife Nefer-shemes exemplifies in the pose and relative scale of its subjects the standard Egyptian artistic conventions for the r...

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[Excavated by Sir Flinders Petrie, Deshasheh, Egypt, 1897]; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, October 1897, by gift [of the Egypt Exploration Fund, no. 97.1092]; Walters Art Museum, 1973, by exchange.
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