Fragments of red granite standing pair statue of Khnumbaef (Babaef)
Three joining fragments [of base] from red granite [pair statue], [each figure standing with] left foot advanced: left foot and toes of figure on [proper left], left foot of figure on [proper right], inscribed in middle [GLYPHS] Khnumbaef/Babaef, inscribed on left edge [GLYPHS], [belongs with fragments from 14-11-89, and 14-11-117, 14-11-118].
Illustration: No
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_14-11-84
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_14-11-84; 14-11-84
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Late Dynasty 4 - Early Dynasty 5
- Entry Date
- 11/20/1914
- Title
- Fragments of red granite standing pair statue of Khnumbaef (Babaef)
- Medium
- Granite
- Dimensions
- Height: base: 10 cm; 16.3 cm Width: 35 cm; front to back: 14 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- G 5230 S [(= S chapel/serdab)] 1 (SS-1)
- Bibliography
- Brovarski, Edward. "Two Old Kingdom Writing Boards from Giza." Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 71 (1987), p. 47, note 5. Eaton-Krauss, Marianne. "Pseudo-Groups." In Rainer Stadelmann and Hourig Sourouzian, eds. Kunst des Alten Reiches: Symposium im Deutschen Archäologischen Institut Kairo am 29. und 30. Oktober 1991. Sonderschrift des Deutschen Archäologischen Institut Abteilung Kairo 28, Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1995, p. 68, n. 69, #2.
- Remarks
- Related fragments: 14-11-89d + 14-11-118 (= MFA 14.1697, fragments of head) + 14-11-89b + 14-11-117 (= MFA 14.1690.2, fragments of proper right shoulder and arm) + 14-11-89a (= MFA 14.1690.1, fragments of proper left shoulder and arm) + 14-11-89c (= MFA 14.1690.3, clenched proper left hand) + 14-11-84 (= MFA 14.1688, fragments of inscribed base including portions of feet)
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
