An Egyptian Limestone Relief, 19th/20th Dynasty, 1292-1075 B.C.

carved with four columns of inscription in sunk relief flanked by two seated guardian figures facing right and ancillary figures in shallow relief, the jackal-headed genius at left wearing a tripartite wig and holding a knife, a cobra below him, two seated Nile gods above, one only partially preserved, each holding a tray laden with two libation vessels between a was-scepter, the lion-headed genius at right wearing a striated tripartite wig and holding a blade, a cobra below, two seated sphinxes above.

American private collection, acquired in Switzerland in 1981

The present relief contains inscriptions and shows vignettes taken from the Book of the Dead, a religious text normally limited to papyrus. The inscription is from Spell CXLVI, and names the owner of the tomb, a general called Iurokhy. For a reference to Iurokhy's name see B. Porter and R.L.B. Moss, Topographical Bibliography, III, 2. Memphis. Part 2. Saqqara to Dashur, Oxford, 1981, p. 661, LS25.

For a closely related relief in the Brooklyn Museum of Art, inv. no. 37.37.1487E) see G.T. Martin, Corpus of Reliefs of the New Kingdom from the Memphite Necropolis and Lower Egypt, vol. 1, London, 1987, p. 20, no. 41.