Text, False door of Tjetji and Debet

European Museums, The British Museum

On the door jambs Tjetji and Debet are joined by children and grandchildren, shown smaller on account of their lower status. Tjetji wears the leopard skin of a priest. He worked in the pyramid complex of King Khafra, directing rotas of lower clergy. Debet was a priestess of the goddesses Hathor and Neith. 4th Dynasty, about 2500 B.C. From Giza, tomb of Tjetji. Limestone


Four-point cross, crescent, triangle, deer head and other symbols on the false door of Tjetji and Debet
Genre:  2500 B.C.

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