Fragments of limestone relief from queen's pyramid chapel
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
Four [fitting] fragments of limestone wall relief (cf. 24-11-242) (Dynasty 4); [a.1 joins 24-11-286d + 24-11-286j].
Illustration: Yes with hieroglyphs.
Illustration scale: 1:4
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_24-11-286a
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_24-11-286a; 24-11-286a
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Architectural elements-Relief
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Entry Date
- 11/08/1924
- Title
- Fragments of limestone relief from queen's pyramid chapel
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Width: 21 cm Length: 42 cm Thickness: 15 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- [Street G 7000], N of G 7131, [originally from chapel of G I-b]
- 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, p. 4, fig. 3. Simpson, William Kelly. The Mastabas of Kawab, Khafkhufu I and II. Giza Mastabas 3. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1978, p. 32.
- Remarks
- These fitting fragments part of relief from queen's pyramid (subsidiary pyramid) G I-b chapel. MFA 27.2052 (.1–.16): Overall forming parts of three registers of relief; lower register contains man leading long horned cow, upper registers contain standing figures (one identified as woman): .1 = 24-11-286a3, .2 = 24-11-286a4, .3 = 24-11-242n11 + 24-11-242n12, .4 = 24-11-242n10, .5 = 24-11-242i, .6 = 24-11-242b1, .7 = 24-11-242b5, .8 = 24-11-242b4, .9 = 24-11-242b2, .10 = 24-11-242b6, .11 = 24-11-242b3, .12 = 24-11-242n8, .13 = 24-11-286d1 + 24-11-286d2 + 24-11-286d3, .14 = 24-11-286j, .15 = 24-11-286a1, .16 = 24-11-286a2. Fragments accessioned as: 24-11-286a1 = MFA 27.2052.15, 24-11-286a2 = MFA 27.2052.16, 24-11-286a3 = MFA 27.2052.1, 24-11-286a4 = MFA 27.2052.2. Additional fragments (not listed or illustrated in original object register entry) now identified as 24-11-286(aa, o-y).
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
