Raherka and Meresankh
Raherka and Meresankh | |
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Raherka and Merseankh-E 15592 | |
Year | 2350s BCE |
Medium | limestone, paint |
Dimensions | 52.8 cm (20.8 in) × 17.6 cm (6.9 in) × 21.3 cm (8.4 in) × 21.3 cm (8.4 in) |
Location | Room 635, display case 14 |
Collection | Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre |
Accession No. | E 15592 |
Raherka and Meresankh in hieroglyphs | ||||||
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Raherka | ||||||
Meresankh "she loves life" |
Raherka and Meresankh (Raherka: "
Background
Raherka held high administrative responsibilities. He was an "inspector of scribes of the jackal". Meresankh's title was "King's acquaintance", which means she had access to the royal palace.[2]
Statue
The couple is known from their beautiful pair-statue now in the
The statue of Raherka and Meresankh has been compared to that of the dwarf Seneb and his family. In both statues the wife is shown warmly embracing her husband.[3]
The German Egyptologists
The statue was found in 1902 by Montague Ballard and probably comes from tomb D 37 which is located in the Steindorff cemetery in Giza. Fragments of another statue depicting a woman carrying a child were found just north of the tomb and are now in the Leipzig Museum (Inv. 2446).[1]
References
- ^ a b c Porter, Bertha and Moss, Rosalind, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings Volume III: Memphis, Part I Abu Rawash to Abusir. 2nd edition; revised and augmented by Dr Jaromir Malek, 1974. Retrieved from gizapyramids.org
- ^ a b Raherka and Meresankh[permanent dead link]
- ISBN 978-1-904687-99-3, pp 262-263
- ^ Alexandra Bonfante-Warren, The Louvre, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 2000, p 57
- ^ Kunst des Alten Reiches:Symposium im Deutschen Archäologischen Institut Kairo, am 29. und 30. Oktober 1991, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. Abteilung Kairo, P. von Zabern, 1995, pp 36-37