Head of alabaster statue of Menkaure
Head of alabaster statue of Menkaure
Details
- ID
- EMC_JE_40705
- Alternate IDs
- EMC_JE_40705; JE_40705; HUMFA_08-7-18; 08-7-18; 22; EMC_SR_2/15073; SR_2/15073
- Department
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Menkaure
- Title
- Head of alabaster statue of Menkaure
- Medium
- Alabaster
- Dimensions
- 34 cm
- Credit Line
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1931. 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, p. 122; plate XXV.2.
- Notes
- From excavations of George Reisner, 1908. Incorrectly identified in Porter-Moss as EMC_JE_40704. Now in Port Said National Museum.
- Remarks
- RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): George Reisner; Menkaure; RELATED SITE(S): Menkaure Valley Temple; RELATED MEDIA: EMC_JE_VIII_sp065LR; MFAB_A251_NS; MFAB_A252_NS; MFAB_C550_NS; MFAB_A280_NS; MFAB_A281_NS; MFAB_A282_NS; MFAB_A283_NS; MFAB_A284_NS; MFAB_AAW1029_NS; MFAB_B389_NS; MFAB_B390_NS; MFAB_B391_NS; MFAB_B392_NS; MFAB_B393_NS; MFAB_B394_NS; MFAB_B395_NS; MFAB_B396_NS; MFAB_B397_NS; MFAB_B398_NS; MFAB_B399_NS; MFAB_B400_NS; MFAB_B401_NS; MFAB_B402_NS; MFAB_B403_NS; MFAB_B404_NS; MFAB_B405_NS; MFAB_B406_NS; MFAB_B407_NS; MFAB_B408_NS; MFAB_B409_NS; MFAB_B410_NS; MFAB_B411_NS; MFAB_B412_NS; MFAB_B413_NS; MFAB_B414_NS; MFAB_B415_NS; MFAB_B415P_NS; MFAB_B416_NS; MFAB_C13183_NS; MFAB_C4545_NS; MFAB_C4563_NS; PDM_1999.015.09; PDM_1999.015.11; ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): HUMFA_08-7-18; Mycerinus publication number 22
