The Identity and Positions of Relief Fragments in Museums and Private Collections 1 : The Reliefs of R'-ḥtp and NFRT from Meydum

Abstract

The tomb of R'-ḥtp and Nfrt was cleared by Mariette in the 1870s but its reliefs were not recorded systematically until 1892, as a result of Petrie's work at Meydum. After both expeditions the chapels of R'-ḥtp and Nfrt were badly vandalized, and although Petrie managed to save some of the reliefs by distributing them to various museums, many others were broken, or sold on the black market as unidentified fragments. This paper is an attempt to reconstruct the reliefs from both chapels by superimposing the outlines of fragments so far identified over the line-drawings made by Petrie. It is hoped that this will reveal the content of the missing sections, and simplify the task of identifying additional fragments removed from this important Old Kingdom tomb.