Head of granite statue
Head of granite statue, apparently relative of Khafre. Photograph: yes.
Details
- ID
- EMC_JE_87816
- Alternate IDs
- JE_87816; EMC_JE_87816; EMC_SR_2/14711; SR_2/14711; SH_exc_2077; exc_2077
- Department
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Period
- Old Kingdom
- Title
- Head of granite statue
- Medium
- Grey granite
- Dimensions
- H 30.5 cm
- Credit Line
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Provenance
- No provenance listed in JE; if, as seems likely, this is is the head mentioned in Hassan, Giza 9, p. 86, Hassan does not specify a findspot but tentatively identifies the individual portrayed as Nebemakhet, "who was buried nearby"; it was thus presumably found near G 8172.
- Bibliography
- Hassan, Giza 9, p. 86; pl XL, XLI
- Notes
- From excavations of Selim Hassan, 1938. Porter-Moss suggests EMC_JE_87816 may be the head of an alabaster statue found by Hassan in shaft 130; however, this is certainly not the case. (Compare Hassan, Giza 1, pl. X to photo in JE.) 87816 is more likely the head described in Hassan, Giza 9, p. 86, pl. XL and XLI.
- Remarks
- ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): EMC_SR_2/_14711; EMC_JE_87186-xxx; Exc. No. 2077