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Fragment of limestone wall relief; low relief, [portion of boat on water].
Illustration: Yes with hieroglyphs.
Illustration scale: 1:4

Details

ID
HUMFA_24-11-546
Alternate IDs
HUMFA_24-11-546; 24-11-546
Department
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification
Architectural elements-Relief
Entry Date
11/14/1924
Title
Fragment of limestone relief
Medium
Limestone
Dimensions
Height: 41 cm Width: 23 cm Thickness: 27 cm
Credit Line
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance
[Avenue G 1], N of subsidiary pyramid G I-b
Bibliography
Cwiek, Andrzej. Relief Decoration in the Royal Funerary Complexes of the Old Kingdom: Studies in the Development, Scene Content and Iconography. Warsaw: Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of History, Warsaw University, 2003, p. 94 (misidentified as 24-12-546). 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 (misidentified as 24-12-546), fig. 7 (mislabeled 24-12-546).

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