Doorjamb of King Djoser
It is most likely part of a broken doorjamb, originating in Djoser’s famous funerary complex at Saqqara. It is probably an element of the oldest stone architecture in the world. The jamb is divided into registers under two identical cartouches that give us one of the names of King Djoser: Netjeri-khet, "holy is his body". A crowned falcon, symbol of the god Horus, surmounts the cartouche. Identical registers alternate below, showing a jackal seated on an invisible prey and a lion at rest.
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Inscriptions on the Monument
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Transliteration
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nTry xt
Translation
Netjeri-khet, "holy is his body".
Dorothea Arnold, Christiane Ziegler, Catherine Roehrig, Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids By Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1999), 171. |