Fragment of limestone relief
Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: avenue G 0, street G 7200, G 7210-7220, G 7101, G 7215, street G 7000, G I-b, G 7310-7320, street G 7400, Khufu pyramid temple
Fragment of limestone relief, belongs with fragments 24-11-242; blades of two oars.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:4
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_24-11-889
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_24-11-889; 24-11-889
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Architectural elements-Relief
- Period
- Old Kingdom
- Entry Date
- 11/28/1924
- Title
- Fragment of limestone relief
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height: 14.7+ cm Width: 18.8+ cm Thickness: 5+ cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- [Street G 7000], W of mastaba G 7110-7120: G 7110, [originally from chapel of G I-b or Khufu pyramid temple]
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A., and William Stevenson Smith. The Tomb of Hetep-Heres the Mother of Cheops: a Study of Egyptian Civilization in the Old Kingdom. A History of the Giza Necropolis 2. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1955, pp. 4-5, fig. 7.
- Remarks
- This fragment possibly related to relief scene from queen's pyramid (subsidiary pyramid) G I-b chapel. MFA 27.1126 (.1–.12): Overall depicts boat manned by several rowers, two men standing at stern operating steering oars, and one man standing at prow directing rowers; composed of: .1 = 24-11-242c, .2 = 24-11-242d, .3 = 24-11-242g, .4 = 24-11-242h, .5 = 24-11-242l, .6 = 24-11-242n9, .7 = 24-11-349, .8 = 24-11-286f, .9 = 24-11-286g, .10 = 24-11-286i, .11 = 24-11-286l, .12 = 24-11-242n7. Possibly related fragments 24-12-14 = MFA 24.2686 and 24-11-889 = MFA 24.2658 (or these fragments may be from similar relief scene from Khufu pyramid temple).
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified