Carrying chair of Queen Hetepheres I
Two pieces of furniture belonging to Queen Hetepheres I: carrying chair restored with modern wood and ancient gold, and rilled cane (staff) consisting of four parts (modern wood) joined together, covered with gold foil and thin fragments of silver.
Details
- ID
- GEM_6362
- Alternate IDs
- 6362; GEM_6362; EMC_JE_52372; JE_52372; EMC_JE_89619A; JE_89619A; EMC_JE_89619B; JE_89619B; EMC_SR_1/10075; SR_1/10075; EMC_SR_1/14598; SR_1/14598
- Department
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Classification
- Furniture
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Khufu
- Title
- Carrying chair of Queen Hetepheres I
- Medium
- Wood (modern); Gold; Silver
- Dimensions
- Chair: 56.6 x 64.0 x 207.5 cm; cane: total L 1.69 m
- Credit Line
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Provenance
- G 7000 X
- Bibliography
- Manuelian, Peter Der. " The Lost Throne of Queen Hetepheres from Giza: An Archaeological Experiment in Visualization and Fabrication."Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 53 (2017), pp. 4, 25, figure 9. Reisner, George A., and William Stevenson Smith. A History of the Giza Necropolis. Vol. 2, The Tomb of Hetep-Heres the Mother of Cheops: A Study of Egyptian Civilization in the Old Kingdom. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1955, pp. 33-4 pls. 27-9, fig. 34. Smith, William Stevenson. “The Old Kingdom in Egypt,” The Cambridge Ancient History, rev. ed. of vols. I & II, Cambridge University Press, 1962, p. 26.
- Notes
- From excavations of George Reisner, March 1925. It is unclear whether GEM number GEM_6362 in meant to include both the chair and the cane; description in GEM records does not mention the cane, however it is included in the object photograph and its original JE number (EMC_JE_89619A-B) is listed in the alternate numbers field. A large portion of Special Register section 7 (volumes 13-16) was originally misnumbered, with the object numbers following in sequence from section 1 volume 4; these numbers have thus been given EMC_SR_1 prefixes, despite being recorded in section 7.
- Remarks
- RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): George Reisner; Hetepheres; ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): EMC_JE_52372; EMC_JE_89619B; EMC_SR_1.10075; EMC_SR_1.14598
