Fragment of limestone relief from queen's pyramid chapel
One fragment of limestone wall relief; one dressed surface with raised relief, traces of red pigment; decoration indistinct.
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_24-11-286v
- Alternate IDs
- 24-11-286v; HUMFA_24-11-286v
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Architectural elements-Relief
- Period
- Old Kingdom
- Title
- Fragment of limestone relief from queen's pyramid chapel
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Other: 6.2 x 8.5 x 0.7 cm (2 7/16 x 3 3/8 x 1/4 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Street G 7000, N of G 7131, originally from chapel of G I-b
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A., and William Stevenson Smith. The Tomb of Hetep-Heres the Mother of Cheops: a Study of Egyptian Civilization in the Old Kingdom. A History of the Giza Necropolis 2. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1955, p. 4, fig. 4. Simpson, William Kelly. The Mastabas of Kawab, Khafkhufu I and II. Giza Mastabas 3. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1978, p. 32.
- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 1924: Excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt.
- Remarks
- Additional fragments (not listed or illustrated in original object register entry) now identified as 24-11-286(aa, o-y).