Greywacke triad statue of Menkaure
Triad statue of the Menakaure, standing; to his right, Hathor crowned with sun disc and horns; to his left, personification of the 17th nome of Upper Egypt (Jackal) the king wearing white crown and shendyt; left leg forward; inscriptions on the plinth.
Details
- ID
- GEM_1237
- Alternate IDs
- 1237; GEM_1237; EMC_JE_40679; JE_40679; EMC_SR_2/14636; SR_2/14636; 11
- Department
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Menkaure
- Title
- Greywacke triad statue of Menkaure
- Medium
- Greywacke or basalt
- Dimensions
- 92.5 x 43 x 48.5 cm
- Credit Line
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Provenance
- Menkaure valley temple, S magazines, corridor III 4
- Bibliography
- Friedman, Florence Dunn. "The Cultic Relationship of the Menkaure Triads to the Small Step Pyramids." In Filip Coppens, Jiři Janák, and Hana Vymazlová, eds. Royal versus Divine Authority: Acquisition, Legitimization and Renewal of Power. 7th Symposium on Egyptian Royal Ideology, Prague, June 26-28, 2013. Wiesbade: Harrassowitz, 2015, pp. 95, 98, 100, 104-105; figures 1b, 3. 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, pp. 19-22, 49; figures 2.1c, 2.2b, 2.3b. 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, pp.113, 118, 131; plate XIX.2. Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931
- Notes
- From excavations of George Reisner, 1908
- Remarks
- RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): George Reisner; Mycerinus/Menkaure; RELATED SITE(S): Valley Temple of Mykerinus; ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): EMC_JE_40679; EMC_SR_2.14636, Mycerinus publication no. 11
