Skip to main content

Offering stone and fragments of relief and inscription: left: fragment of relief and offering stone found near G 2461': fragment of relief = 12-12-208 (= MFA 13.5970), offering stone inscribed for Mesi = 12-12-208; right: fragment of inscription from G 2382 (originally thought to be a tomb, but now known to be a jumbled deposit of limestone blocks from other nearby tombs), originally from G 2381, Nekhebu: 13-1-547 (= MFA 13.4331.7, autobiographical inscription of Nekhebu)

Details

ID
HUMFA_B1604_NS
Alternate IDs
B1604_NS; B1604; HUMFA_B1604_NS; HUMFAB1604NS
Department
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Date
12/23/1912
Subjects
Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2461', G 2381, G 2382
Media View
Object(s) photograph
Remarks
Two different tombs numbered G 2461 on published map of western cemetery; one tomb located W of G 2378 and N of G 2377; other tomb located in area W of G 2187; the former tomb is now identified as G 2461'; the latter tomb is now identified as G 2461; 12-2-208 (fragments of relief and offering stone) found near G 2461', W of G 2378. MFA 13.4331 (overall): composed of autiobiographical inscription of Nekhebu (13-1-547) and spear fishing scene from adjoining wall (13-1-549).
Problems/Questions
VERIFIED: G 2361 corrected to read G 2461' for 12-12-208 per caption in mounted print archive box; 13-1-547 identification verified based on Brovarski composites; MFA accession numbers verified

Tombs and Monuments 3

Finds 2

Unpublished Documents 3