Fragment 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
One fragment of limestone wall relief (cf. 24-11-242) (Dynasty 4).
Illustration: Yes with hieroglyphs.
Illustration scale: 1:4
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_24-11-286b
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_24-11-286b; 24-11-286b
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Architectural elements-Relief
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Entry Date
- 11/08/1924
- Title
- Fragment of limestone relief from queen's pyramid chapel
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height: 14 cm Width: 28.6 cm Thickness: 3.2 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. 4. Simpson, William Kelly. The Mastabas of Kawab, Khafkhufu I and II. Giza Mastabas 3. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1978, p. 32. Smith, William Stevenson. A History of Egyptian Sculpture and Painting in the Old Kingdom. London: Oxford University Press, 1946, pl. 38.
- Remarks
- 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
