Fragment of gneiss seated statue of Menkaure
Lower portion of black and white gneiss seated statue; inscription on front of throne at sides of legs and on top of base, text gives Horus name and cartouche of Menkaure on right side and beloved of Sokar and epithets of Sokar on left side; broken at waist, upper part missing, edges chipped. [1908 no. 22 = published no. 39 = 08-7-26]
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.727
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_11.727; 11.727
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Menkaure
- Title
- Fragment of gneiss seated statue of Menkaure
- Medium
- Gneiss
- Dimensions
- Height x width x depth: 23 x 16 x 21 cm (9 1/16 x 6 5/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / room 2 = offering room)
- Bibliography
- Friedman, Florence Dunn. "The Names of Menkaure." In Kamil O. Kuraszkiewicz, Edyta Kopp, and Daniel Takács, eds. 'The Perfection that Endures... ': Studies on Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology. Warsaw: Department of Egyptology - Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw, 2018, p. 118; plate XXI.2. Grzymski, Krzysztof. "Royal Statuary." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 52. Manuelian, Peter Der. "Excavating the Old Kingdom. The Giza Necropolis and Other Mastaba Fields." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 145. Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, pp. 36, 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. 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)
- Remarks
- Registration number obtained from publication; no registration records available for 1908.
