Upper part of seated statue of Menkaure
Torso, head, and upper arms of seated statue of Menkaure, wearing nemes and uraeus.
Details
- ID
- GEM_9017
- Alternate IDs
- GEM_9017; 9017; HUMFA_10-1-5; 10-1-5; 36; EMC_JE_41975; JE_41975; EMC_SR_2/15890; SR_2/15890
- Department
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Menkaure
- Title
- Upper part of seated statue of Menkaure
- Medium
- Granite or diorite
- Dimensions
- GEM: 32.5 x 10.0 x 10.0 cm (probably incorrect); JE: 19 cm
- Credit Line
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple, mud debris above III_18 at foot of walls of I-4
- Bibliography
- REISNER, Mycerinus, pl. 62 [i, left], p. 113 [36]
- Notes
- From excavations of George Reisner, 1910. Records from the GEM seem to confuse this statue fragment with GEM_1096 (= EMC_JE_41973), giving the measements for that object.
- Remarks
- ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): HUMFA_10-1-5; Mycerinus no. 36; EMC_SR_2/_15890; EMC_JE_41975; RELATED CONTITUENT(S): Menkaure, George Reisner; RELATED SITE(S): Menkaure Valley Temple; RELATED MEDIA: C2092_NS, C2092P_NS, C2092_NS, C2094P_NS, B607_NS, C2153_NS, C2154_NS, C2165_NS