Fragment of limestone relief from queen's pyramid chapel
Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7110-7120, street G 7000, street G 7300, G 7310-7320, G I-b, street G 7400, avenue G 1, Khufu pyramid temple
One fragment of limestone wall relief (cf. 24-11-242) (Dynasty 4).
Illustration: Yes with hieroglyphs.
Illustration scale: 1:1
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_24-11-286e
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_24-11-286e; 24-11-286e
- 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: 6.9 cm Width: 5.4 cm Thickness: 1.2 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.
- Remarks
- Additional fragments (not listed or illustrated in original object register entry) now identified as 24-11-286(aa, o-y).
