Digital Giza | Fragment of gneiss seated statue of Khufukhaf I

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: avenue G 2, G 7422, G 7133 (formerly G 7130 X), G I-a boat pit, avenue G 0

Fragment of [life-sized] [gneiss] [seated statue of Khufukhaf I, inscribed base and rise of right foot].
Illustration: Yes with hieroglyphs.
Illustration scale: 1:4.
Additional illustration: Yes.
Additional illustration scale: 1:2

ID: HUMFA_24-12-962
Alternate IDs: 24-12-962; HUMFA_24-12-962
Department: Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification: Sculpture
Entry Date: 12/26/1924
Title: Fragment of gneiss seated statue of Khufukhaf I
Medium: [Gneiss]
Dimensions: Height: 16.5 cm Width: 13.5 cm Thickness: 8.2 cm
Credit Line: Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance: Pit G 7130 X [= G 7133] [(Khafkhufu's tomb is G 7130-7140: G 7140)]
Bibliography: Flentye, Laurel. "The Development of Art in the Fourth Dynasty: The Eastern and GIS Cemeteries at Giza." In Mamdouh Eldmaty and Mai Trad, eds. Egyptian Museum Collections Around the World: Studies for the Centennial of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities, 2002, pp. 388-391. 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, fig. 11. Simpson, William Kelly. The Mastabas of Kawab, Khafkhufu I and II. Giza Mastabas 3. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1978, pp. 20, 33, fig. 69.
Problems/Questions: MFA accession number verified