West wall of the chapel of the mastaba of Nikauhor and Sekhemhathor
Probably early Dynasty 5, period of Userkaf through Niuserre (ca. 2465-2389
BCE)
Limestone, excavated at Saqqara, mastaba S 915
Rogers Fund, 1908 (O8.201.2)
West wall of the chapel of the mastaba of Nikauhor and Sekhemhathor
Probably early Dynasty 5, period of Userkaf through Niuserre (ca. 2465-2389
BCE)
Limestone, excavated at Saqqara, mastaba S 915
Rogers Fund, 1908 (O8.201.2)
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(From info card) ""Nikauhor was a judge and a priest of Userkaf's sun temple and mortuary cult. His wife, Sekhemhathor, was a priestess of Hathor and Neith. The false door niche on the left, flanked by figures of Nikauhor, belongs to him; that on the right, flanked by figures of the couple, belongs to his wife. Nikauhor's offering stela is missing, and that of Sekhemhathor- which originally was placed above her false door -- has been displaced to the left because of the height of the wall. Nikauhor's single figures in particular are very finely carved; his mature, austere feature are characteristic of Fifth Dynasty style as opposed to that the Fourth. The relief flanking his wife's false door is flatter and less modeled.... "The mastaba of Nikauhor, like those of Raemkai and Perneb, was located in a cemetary north of the Djoser complex." |
