Fragment of flint pesesh-kef inscribed for Khamerernebty I
Fragment of fine-grained greenish colored flint pesesh-kef; hieroglyphs on front, inscribed for Khamerenebty I (mother of Menkaure); broken at both ends. [07-1-80]
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.766
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_11.766; 11.766
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Tools & Equipment-Ritual implements
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Khafre
- Title
- Fragment of flint pesesh-kef inscribed for Khamerernebty I
- Medium
- Flint
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 7.2 x 4.7 x 0.6 cm (2 13/16 x 1 7/8 x 1/4 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Pyramid Temple ([MPT] GMT / room F = magazine corridor 15)
- Bibliography
- Baud, Michel. "La tombe de la reine-mère xa-mrr-Nbtj Ire." Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 95 (1995), p. 18. Callender, Vivienne G. and Peter Jánosi. "The Tomb of Queen Khamerernebty II at Giza." Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 53 (1997), p. 19. Friedman, Florence Dunn. "The Menkaure Dyad(s)." In Stephen E. Thompson and Peter Der Manuelian, eds. Egypt and Beyond: Essays Presented to Leonard H. Lesko upon his Retirement from the Wilbour Chair of Egyptology at Brown University June 2005. Providence: Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies, 2008, p. 141. Markowitz, Yvonne J., Joyce L. Haynes, and Rita E. Freed. Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids: Highlights from the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expedition. Boston: MFA Publications, 2002, p. 69, cat. 17b. Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, pp. 18, 233, pl. 19a.
- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 1907: 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 1907.
- Problems/Questions
- Problem: publication p. 233 identifies findspot as room 15, publication pl. 19a identifies findspot as 14
