Digital Giza | Head of limestone statue of Khuwiwer (?)

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: G 8674

Head and right part of the bust of limestone statue of a man, probably Khuwiwer; very short hairdress; traces of colors.

ID: GEM_1082
Alternate IDs: GEM_1082; 1082; EMC_JE_72221; JE_72221; EMC_SR_2/14776; SR_2/14776; SH_exc_1108; exc_1108
Department: Grand Egyptian Museum
Classification: Sculpture
Period: Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5
Title: Head of limestone statue of Khuwiwer (?)
Medium: Limestone
Dimensions: GEM: 35.0 x 15.0 cm; JE: 32 x 10 x 13 cm
Credit Line: Grand Egyptian Museum
Provenance: G 8674, shaft 973
Bibliography: PM 3, p. 255: HASSAN, Gîza, v, pl. xxxi, p. 254; LANGE and HIRMER, Aegypten. Architektur, pl. 79; KEES, Das alte Ägypten (1955), Abb. 41; (1958), Abb. 50; Eng. ed. Ancient Egypt (1961), pl. 23 [b]; DONADONI, Egyptian Museum Cairo, pl. on p. 52.
Notes: From excavations of Selim Hassan, 1934.
Remarks: RELATED SITE(S): G 8674; ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): EMC_JE_72221; EMC_SR_2.14776; SH_exc_1108; RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): Khuwiwer (G 8674); Selim Hassan

Head of limestone statue of Khuwiwer (?)