false door; altar pieces; door panel

Stone false door panel made of light grey stone with an inscription carved into the front.
label: cream with black type

"False door of Shepseskau-meryre Meryreankh Noble of the King, Companion of the house, Overseer of the department of tenants of the Great House, temp. Pepy I or later, formerly in Halifax (United Kingdom), Bankfield Museum, now in London, Horniman Museum. Midgley, T. Egyptian Tablets (Bankfield Museum Notes No.4) (1907), 6-7, 10 fig. iii"

This image may actually be the altar piece 24.6.57/3 described in the same publication : "Midgley, T. Egyptian Tablets (Bankfield Museum Notes No.4) (1907), 4-5, fig. ii...6: A royal offering to Anubis for a burial in the West
7: Offerings of feasts at the opening of the year, at the festival of Thoth, the Wag (festival) and at the great festival
8: The royal relative Khepnefert"

Joann Fletcher, researcher at York added "Midgley also dates it to the 6th dynasty, and as for provenance gives Thebes (Luxor), although this may or may not be the case, since it was part of a larger collection of objects brought to Halifax from Egypt in 1839 when all were described as "various Egyptian antiquities from Thebes" - but since some of these have more recently been suggested as coming from Abydos, the actual provenance for the Horniman piece is equally uncertain I'd say"

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