Fragment of limestone relief
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
Fragment of limestone wall relief; high relief, [head of man], ears covered by wig.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:4
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_24-11-473
- Alternate IDs
- 24-11-473; HUMFA_24-11-473
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Architectural elements-Relief
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Khafre
- Entry Date
- 11/13/1924
- Title
- Fragment of limestone relief
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height: 10.3 cm Width: 7.4 cm Thickness: 2 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- [Avenue G 1], debris N of subsidiary pyramid G I-b, [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.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified