Doorjamb of King Djoser
General Information

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.

Storing Place Egyptian museum - Cairo - Egypt
Material Limestone
Type Door-jamb
Type of Script Hieroglyphic
Discovery Place Saqqara - Saqqara - Egypt
Height 211 cm
Historical Period The Third Dynasty – The Old Kingdom
General Comments

Two blocks signed by Djoser, were thus found in the middle of the pavement of the funeral temple of Queen Ipout. wife of Teti, at Saqqara.

Inscriptions on the Monument
Transliteration
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nTry xt


Translation

Netjeri-khet, "holy is his body".

Scientific Publishing

Dorothea Arnold, Christiane Ziegler, Catherine Roehrig, Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids By Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1999), 171.