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Alabaster seated statue of Menkaure

Details

ID
EMC_JE_40704
Alternate IDs
JE_40704; EMC_JE_40704; HUMFA_08-7-16; 08-7-16; HUMFA_08-7-19; 08-7-19; HUMFA_08-7-20; 08-7-20; 18; EMC_SR_2/15655; SR_2/15655
Department
Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Classification
Sculpture
Period
Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Menkaure
Title
Alabaster seated statue of Menkaure
Medium
Alabaster
Dimensions
160 x 53 x 85 cm
Credit Line
Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Provenance
Menkaure Valley Temple, room K (room 1 [room III1] on published plan)
Bibliography
Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 36 (entry for July 15), p. 111 (entry no. 22), p. 262, “Room (III-1): In debris of decay on floor of second temple, No. ix Alabaster, head of statue No. 22.” Friedman, Florence Dunn. "Economic Implications of the Menkaure Triads." In Manuelian, Peter Der, and Thomas Schneider, eds. Towards a New History for the Egyptian Old Kingdom. Harvard Egyptological Studies 1. Leiden: Brill, 2015, p. 23. 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.121; plates XXIII.2, XXIV.1, XXIV.2.
Notes
From excavations of George Reisner, 1908. Incorrectly identified in Porter-Moss as EMC_JE_40703.
Remarks
RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): George Reisner; Menkaure; RELATED SITE(S): Menkaure Valley Temple; RELATED MEDIA: EMC_JE_VIII_sp065LR; MFAB_A251_NS; MFAB_A252_NS; MFAB_C2382_NS; MFAB_A1088_NS; MFAB_A285_NS; MFAB_A286_NS; MFAB_A287_NS; MFAB_A288_NS; MFAB_A289_NS; MFAB_A290_NS; MFAB_A291_NS; MFAB_B359_NS; MFAB_360_NS; MFAB_361_NS; MFAB_B362_NS; MFAB_B363_NS; MFAB_B364_NS; MFAB_B365_NS; MFAB_B366_NS; MFAB_B367_NS; MFAB_B368_NS; MFAB_B369_NS; MFAB_B370_NS; MFAB_B371_NS; MFAB_B372_NS; MFAB_B373_NS; MFAB_B374_NS; MFAB_B375_NS; MFAB_B376_NS; MFAB_B376P_NS; MFAB_B377_NS; MFAB_B378_NS; MFAB_379_NS; MFAB_B380_NS; MFAB_B381_NS; MFAB_B382_NS; MFAB_B383_NS; MFAB_B385_NS; MFAB_B386_NS; MFAB_B387_NS; MFAB_B388_NS; MFAB_B445_NS; MFAB_B450_NS; MFAB_C4557_NS; MFAB_C4558_NS; MFAB_C4561_NS; MFAB_C4562_NS; MFAB_C4564_NS; MFAB_C4565_NS; ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): HUMFA_08-7-16; HUMFA_08-7-19; HUMFA_08-7-20; Mycerinus publication number 18

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