Fragments of limestone statue
Fragment of white limestone statuette, seated male figure, torso and broken legs; man wears short [kilt] and apparently had hands resting on knees; whole in bad preservation // "b": seven small fragments from upper part of body and from arms. Illustration: No
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- ID
- HUMFA_13-11-36
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- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Classification
- Sculpture
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- Findspot
- Mastaba G 4140, debris filling chapel
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- Material
- Limestone
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- Dimensions
- Height: total in present condition: 42 cm; chair: 21 cm Width: chair: 20 cm Length: chair, from front to back: 22 cm
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- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Object Ownership Information
- MFA accession number: 13.5637
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- Period
- Old Kingdom
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- Date of Register Entry
- 11/05/1913
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- Remarks
- MFA 13.5637 = 13-11-36 (torso and legs & upper body fragments) + 13-11-37 (hand) + 13-11-38 (feet and base), various fragments of same limestone seated statue
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- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
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Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 464.