Pyramidion of Meri-imen Ra-mesu

19th–20th Dynasty, ca. 1237–1150 BC, From Western Thebes

 

 

Pyramidion of Meri-imen Ra-mesu

A small pyramid-shaped structure crowned with this pyramidion was built above the subterranean burial place of Meri-imen Ra-mesu, a priest at the funerary temple of Ramesses II, the Ramesseum. The depictions on one face of the pyramidion show the tomb owner in an attitude of prayer before Osiris with Isis and Nephthys; on the opposite side he prays to the ram-headed god Amun-Re-Harakhty.

Location: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Raum V

Object data

Object Name

Pyramidion

Culture

Ägyptisch

Period

New Kingdom

Dated

19th–20th Dynasty, ca. 1237–1150 BC

Material

Painted sandstone

Dimensions

H 44,6 cm, B 36,4 cm, T 30 cm, G 45 kg

Image rights

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Ägyptisch - Orientalische Sammlung

Inv. No.

Ägyptische Sammlung, INV 209

Provenance

1845, gift of Anton von Laurin

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