Digital Giza | Head of limestone statue

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2501

Head of painted white limestone statuette of standing male figure; corrugated close fitting wig, ears covered. Another fragment of this statuette [MFAB_13.3152] was also found, [lower legs including] feet [and base] with left foot advanced. Illustration: No

ID

MMA_64.66.13
Department

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Classification

Sculpture
Findspot

In front of G 2501
Material

Limestone
Credit Line

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Fletcher Fund, 1964
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number

HUMFA_12-12-216
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston accession number

MFAB_13.3153
Object Ownership Information

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, MMA_64.66.13; deaccessioned MFAB_13.3153
Period

Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6
Date of Register Entry

12/28/1912
Object owned by

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Notes

Excavated by the Harvard-Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expediton in Giza, 1912. Received from the Egyptian Government by the MFA in the allotment of finds (MFAB_13.3153). Deaccessioned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on April 8, 1964.
Remarks

Head = MMA_64.66.13 (= deaccessioned MFAB_13.3153); legs and base = MFAB_13.3152
Problems/Questions

MFA and MMA accession numbers verified