False door of Sheshi, cow head

European Museums, The British Museum

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Head of a cow symbol on the false door of Sheshi

False door of Sheshi

Sheshi and his wife sit at tables laid with slices of bread. Small images and text invoke more offerings. In a playful detail on the jambs a son and daughter call for their parents' attention.

Sheshi was a royal scribe and inspector of priests - likely those performing the mortuary cult of Khufu in the dead king's pyramid complex. Sheshi's full official name was Neferseshem-Khufu: 'Khufu's guidance is perfect'.

Early  5th Dynasty, about 2450 B.C.

From Giza, tomb of Nefer-seshem-Khufu

Limestone

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Head of a cow symbol on the false door of Sheshi

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Source:  London, United Kingdom