Block of limestone relief from tomb of Meretites
[Block] of limestone wall relief; [inscription; joins 29-7-22 and 29-3-87].
Illustration: Yes with hieroglyphs.
Illustration scale: 1:4
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_29-7-21
- Alternate IDs
- 29-7-21; HUMFA_29-7-21
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Architectural elements-Relief
- Entry Date
- 07/16/1929
- Title
- Block of limestone relief from tomb of Meretites
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height: 25 cm Width: 34.5 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Mastaba G 7650 a, chapel
- Bibliography
- Flentye, Laurel. "The Development of Art in the Eastern and GIS Cemeteries at Giza during the Fourth Dynasty: Iconography and Style." In Jean-Claude Goyon and Christine Cardin, eds. Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Egyptologists, Grenoble, 6-12 septembre 2004, vol. I. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 150. Leuven: Uitgeveru Peeters en Departement Oosterse Studies, 2007, p. 726. Flentye, Laurel. "The Mastabas of Ankh-haf (G 7510) and Akhethetep and Meretites (G 7650) in the Eastern Cemetery at Giza: A Reassessment." In Zahi Hawass and Janet Richards, eds. The Archaeology and Art of Ancient Egypt. Essays in Honor of David B. O'Connor, Vol. I. Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte, Cahier no. 36. Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities, 2007, pp. 296, 297, 301, 302, 303, fig. 7.
- Remarks
- 29-3-87 = MFA 30.831 (one block with inscription and part of face) joins and is now part of MFA 37.2620 = 29-3-88 (one fragment with inscription and part of proper right arm) + 29-7-21 (one block with inscription) + 29-7-22 (one block with back of wig and proper right shoulder + two of three additional fragments also registered as 29-7-22: one with inscription, one with part of proper right arm and lower body).
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
