Base of gneiss statuette
Base of small gneiss statuette, seated male figure; lightly incised hieroglyphs on top and front of seat; missing from waist up, feet missing, edges chipped. [1910 no. 10 = published no. 42]
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.735
- Alternate IDs
- 11.735; MFAB_11.735
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Period
- Old KIngdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Menkaure
- Title
- Base of gneiss statuette
- Medium
- Gneiss
- Dimensions
- Other:Height 17.1 x Width of throne 14.7 cm (6 3/4 x 5 13/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / debris of court, I 395)
- Bibliography
- Grzymski, Krzysztof. "Royal Statuary." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 52. Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, pp. 38, 113.
- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 1910: 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)
