Relief, tomb of Khety: sacred objects to be used in the funeral - see 26.3.354-7
Middle Kingdom
These two fragments of sunk relief preserve the base of a piece of furniture (to viewer right) and perhaps several teardrop-shaped beads that hung from the end of a counterpoise (a pendant that hung down the wearer's back to balance the weight of a heavy necklace). In the lower part of both fragments, there are two sets of hieroglyphs that write the word menkhet (clothing), referring to the content that apparently was represented in the register below.
These relief fragments once lined the tomb's entrance passage of Khety, the first recorded royal treasurer ("overseer of what is sealed") of Mentuhotep II (ca. 2051-2000 B.C.). The tomb of Khety was situated high up in the cliffs at Deir el-Bahri, near the mortuary complex of the king.
