Alabaster seated statue of Menkaure
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
