Relief block depicting plucking and roasting fowl and herds crossing water

Title: Relief block depicting plucking and roasting fowl and herds crossing water

Period: Middle Kingdom

Dynasty: Dynasty 12

Reign: reign of Amenemhat I, late

Date: ca. 1962–1952 B.C.

Geography: From Egypt, Memphite Region, Lisht North, re-used as sill in a house, MMA excavations, 1913–14; Possibly from Tomb of Nakht (493)

Medium: Limestone

Dimensions: H. 95.2 cm (37 1/2 in.); W. 71.7 cm (28 1/4 in.)

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1915

Accession Number: 15.3.1164

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Excavated by the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Acquired by the Museum in the division of finds.

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Scott, Nora E. 1944. Home Life of the Ancient Egyptians: A Picture Book. New York: Plantin Press, fig. 7.

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Arnold, Dieter 2008. Middle Kingdom Tomb Architecture at Lisht, Publications of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition, 28. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Arnold, Dorothea 2008. "Egyptian Art - A Performing Art." In Servant of Mut: Studies in Honor of Richard A. Fazzini, fig. 1 and discussion throughout.

Jánosi, Peter 2015. "Bringing the Choicest of Haunches and Fowl...": Some Thoughts on the Tomb of Rehuerdjersen at Lisht-North." In The Art and Culture of Ancient Egypt: Studies in Honor of Dorothea Arnold, edited by Adela Oppenheim and Ogden Goelet. Bulletin of the Egyptological Seminar, vol. 19, passim.

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