Fragments of porphyry statue
Four joining fragments of coarse-grained black and white porphyry standing statuette, possibly of Menkaure (may belong with MFA 11.961); badly broken with head and thigh missing: a) two joined sections: base and feet joined to lower legs; b) torso fragment; c) fragment of striding leg. [published no. 40]
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.739a-c
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_11.739a-c; 11.739a-c
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Title
- Fragments of porphyry statue
- Medium
- Porphyry
- Dimensions
- A: 15 x 10.3 x 15.3 cm (5 7/8 x 4 1/16 x 6 in.) B: 10.7 x 12.5 x 8.2 cm (4 3/16 x 4 15/16 x 3 1/4 in.) C: 8.6 x 3.8 x 7.8 cm (3 3/8 x 1 1/2 x 3 1/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / scattered in remains of various mud brick rooms in court, I 312, I 319, I 395 [N of N wall of I 392])
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, pp. 38, 113, 268 (incorrectly attributed to I 310), 269, 271.
- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. Excavated by the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; 1911: assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt. (Accession date: March 2, 1911)