Digital Giza | Limestone reserve head

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4440

Life-sized white limestone [reserve] head of man; plaster clinging to face around mouth (as if once built up in masonry with plaster).
Illustration: No

ID: HUMFA_13-11-90
Alternate IDs: 13-11-90; HUMFA_13-11-90
Department: Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification: Sculpture
Period: Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Khufu ?
Entry Date: 11/24/1913
Title: Limestone reserve head
Medium: Limestone
Credit Line: Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance: Pit G 4440 A, debris in pit just below top of stone block
Bibliography: Assmann, Jan. "Preservation and Presentation of Self in Ancient Egyptian Portraiture." In Peter Der Manuelian, ed., Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson 1. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1996. p. 59, fig. 3. Dunham, Dows. The Egyptian Department and its Excavations. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1958, pp. 44-46,.fig. 27c. Millet, N.B. "The Reserve Heads of the Old Kingdom." In William Kelly Simpson and Whitney M. Davis, eds. Studies in Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Sudan: Essays in Honor of Dows Dunham on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday, June 1, 1980. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1981, pp. 129-130. Reisner, George A. "Accessions to the Egyptian Department During 1914." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 13, No. 76 (April 1915), pp. 31-32, 34, fig. 8. Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 477. Sanborn, Ashton. "New Installation of Egyptian Sculpture." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 23, No. 140 (December 1925), p. 73. Smith, William Stevenson. "Old Kingdom Sculpture." American Journal of Archaeology 45 (1941), pp. 525-526, fig. 4. Smith, William Stevenson. Ancient Egypt as Represented in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1960 (6th ed.), p. 34, 35, fig. 10.
Problems/Questions: MFA accession number verified