Fragment of limestone relief
Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: avenue G 0, street G 7000, Khufu pyramid temple, avenue G 4, G I-c, G I-a boat pit, G 7130-7140
Fragment of limestone relief; head of bird, perhaps [GLYPH] "a".
Illustration: Yes
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_24-11-922
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_24-11-922; 24-11-922
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Architectural elements-Relief
- Entry Date
- 11/29/1924
- Title
- Fragment of limestone relief
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height: 4.6 cm Width: 4.8 cm Thickness: 1.25 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- [Street G 7000], E of subsidiary pyramid G I-a, [originally from 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.