Limestone reserve head
White limestone [reserve] head of "King's daughter" (name unknown); head represents stout woman of 40-45 years, eyebrows strongly marked as if to imitate blackening by kohl in life, flesh below chin very full, neck spreads out at bottom as if to represent beginning of bust (whereas in male statues sides of neck are parallel); nose and ears broken off and large piece chipped from back of neck (head was thrown down by plunderers), groove cut in top and back of head in uncompleted attempt to split it open in search for gold. Illustration: No
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- ID
- EMC_JE_46217
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- Department
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Classification
- Sculpture
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- Findspot
- Pit G 4140 A
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- Material
- Limestone
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- Dimensions
- 26 cm
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- Credit Line
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
- HUMFA_13-11-1
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- Cairo Special Register number
- EMC_SR_2/14725
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- Object Ownership Information
- In the collection of: Egyptian Museum, Cairo (EMC_JE_46217)
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- Period
- Old Kingdom
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- Date of Register Entry
- 11/02/1913
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- Object owned by
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Problems/Questions
- Cairo JE number verified
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
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Hall, H. "Notes and News." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 2 (1915), p. 186.
Manuelian, Peter Der. Slab Stelae of the Giza Necropolis. Publications of the Pennsylvania–Yale Expedition to Egypt 7. New Haven and Philadelphia: Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2003, p. 97, figs. 140-141.
Reisner, George A. "Accessions to the Egyptian Department During 1914." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 13, No. 76 (April 1915), pp. 30, 32-33, fig. 6.
Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 462, pls. 46d, 52b.
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- Type Object owned by