Fragments of red granite statue
Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7101, G 7410-7420, street G 7200, G 4813
Four fragments of nearly life-sized red granite statue: left shoulder and upper arm, three fragments of left elbow and forearm. Another fragment of this statue was found [MMA_64.66.3 = deaccessioned MFAB_21.932]: head and [proper] right shoulder (perfect except for tip of nose).
Illustration: No
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_15-11-69
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_15-11-69; 15-11-69
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Entry Date
- 11/25/1915
- Title
- Fragments of red granite statue
- Medium
- Granite
- Dimensions
- Height: ca 33.3 cm Width: 32.3 cm Thickness: 21.4 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4813 C
- Notes
- Excavated by the Harvard-Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expediton in Giza, 1915. Received from the Egyptian Government by the MFA in the allotment of finds. Head and right shoulder fragment accessioned as MFAB_21.932. Deaccessioned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; acquired as MMA_64.66.3 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on April 8, 1964. Four left shoulder and arm fragments remain in the MFA (HUMFA_15-11-69).
- Remarks
- Four left shoulder and arm fragments = HUMFA_15-11-69; head and right shoulder = MMA_64.66.3 (= deaccessioned MFAB_21.932)
- Problems/Questions
- MFA and MMA accession numbers verified