Headless limestone standing statue of Khnumbaef (Babaef)
White limestone statue of Khnumbaef/Babaef, standing [with left foot advanced], hands at sides, long full [kilt]; front of [kilt] roughened, covered with fine mud, remodeled and covered with fine white plaster; headless, mud nearly all fallen off front of [kilt], weathered.
Illustration: Yes with hieroglyphs
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_14-11-93
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_14-11-93; 14-11-93
- 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
- Headless limestone standing statue of Khnumbaef (Babaef)
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height: 142.5 cm; to neck: 135 cm: base: 13 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- G 5230 S [(= S chapel/serdab)] 2 (SS-2), second from W
- Bibliography
- Brovarski, Edward. "Two Old Kingdom Writing Boards from Giza." Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 71 (1987), p. 47, note 5. Manuelian, Peter Der. "Penmeru Revisited–Giza Mastaba G 2197 (Giza Archives Gleanings V)." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 45 (2009), pp. 33-34.
- Notes
- on long term loan (since 1971) to Detroit Institute of Arts
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
