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An estate steward

An estate steward is a linen mark, myt, stweard, henenu, hnn.w in linen with ink, made ca. 2051–2030 B.C. It is held by Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, in the Egyptian Art collection, accession 22.3.7. It entered that collection as Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1922. It measures h. 3.2 cm (1 1/4 in); w. 7.2 cm (2 13/16 in).

Overview

What the sources state

• Accession number: 22.3.7 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access collection record 545306, consulted for An estate steward)

• Acquired: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1922 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access collection record 545306, consulted for An estate steward)

• Made: ca. 2051–2030 B.C. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access collection record 545306, consulted for An estate steward)

• Collection: Egyptian Art (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access collection record 545306, consulted for An estate steward)

• Dimensions: h. 3.2 cm (1 1/4 in); w. 7.2 cm (2 13/16 in) (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access collection record 545306, consulted for An estate steward)

• Medium: Linen with ink (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access collection record 545306, consulted for An estate steward)

• Object: Linen mark, Myt, stweard, Henenu, Hnn.w (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access collection record 545306, consulted for An estate steward)

• Held by: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access collection record 545306, consulted for An estate steward)

• Title: Linen mark from the burial of Myt bearing the name of the steward Henenu (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access collection record 545306, consulted for An estate steward)

Sources

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  • Museum record · Institutional or primary · The Metropolitan Museum of Art

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access collection record 545306, consulted for An estate steward

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