Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (16.2004(2005))

SAQQARA

EGYPT

There is a red band, framed with black ho-
rizontal lines, painted horizontally across the
framing, outer and inner jambs, and below
the inscriptions and figural representations;
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A) Framing, horizontal element:
htp dj njswt Jnpw tpj dw.f prjt-hrw njt
Spst njswt Hkrt;
May the King give offering and Anubis-
Who-Is-Upon-His-Hill, (namely) the invo-
cation offering of3 noblewoman of the king4
Khekeret5.

a similar band is found on the inner jambs
and drum. Moreover, the offering table on the
panel bears traces of blue paint, while the
loaves of bread upon it are painted yellow.
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The invocation offering of an honored by
Osiris, Khekeret.
G) Left middle jamb
jm Ihwt hr ntr rl nb jmnt rht njswt Hkrt;
Honored by the great god, Lord of the West,
king's acquaintance, Khekeret.

B) Framing, left vertical element:
jmihwt hr Pth-Zkr hm(t)-ntr Hwt-Hr Hkrt;
Honored by Ptah-Sokar, priestess of Hathor,
Khekeret.
C) Framing, right vertical element:
prjt-hrw njt Spst njswt jmlhw[t] hr ntr rl
Hkrt;
The invocation offering of a noblewoman
of the king, honored by the great god,
Khekeret.
D) Outer lintel:
jmihwt hr ntr C1 Hkrt;
Honored by the great god, Khekeret.
E) Left outer jamb:
hm(t)-ntr Hwt-Hr jmihwt hr Pth Hkrt;
Priestess of Hathor, honored by Ptah,
Khekeret.
F) Right outer jamb:
prjt-hrw njt jmihwt hr Wsjr Hkrt;

H) Right middle jamb
rht njswt hm(t)-ntr Hwt-Hr jmihwt Spst
njswt Hkrt;
King's acquaintance, priestess of Hathor,
honored one, noblewoman of the king,
Khekeret.
I) Panel:
hi (m) t6 hi (m) hnkt hi (m) Ipdw hi (m)
klw hi (m) mnht n imlh{w)t Hkrt;
Thousand loaves of bread, thousand jars of
beer, thousand birds, thousand oxen and
thousand clothes for the honored one,
Khekeret.
J) Inner lintel:
jmlh(w)t Hkrt;
Honored one, Khekeret.
As suggested by other finds from Shaft 32
and the funerary complex to which the shaft
belonged (see below), the false door of
Khekeret certainly did not originate from
this tomb.

3 Concerning the nominal prjt-hrw in genitival construction, see G. Lapp, Die Opferformel des Alten Reiches (=SDA1K
21), (Mainz 1986) §§ 68, 160.
4 D. Jones, An Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles, Epithets and Phrases of the Old Kingdom (Oxford 2000), (henceforth:
Jones, Index), 990-991, no. 3664.
5 The name is attested in the Memphite necropolis (PM III, 676). On this graphy, cf. Wb III, 401.
6 Edel, Gramm. § 398; Lapp §§ 199-226.

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