Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4440
Life-sized white limestone [reserve] head of man; plaster clinging to face around mouth (as if once built up in masonry with plaster). Illustration: No
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- ID
- HUMFA_13-11-90
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- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Classification
- Sculpture
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- Findspot
- Pit G 4440 A, debris in pit just below top of stone block
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- Material
- Limestone
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- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Object Ownership Information
- MFA accession number: 14.718
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- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Khufu ?
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- Date of Register Entry
- 11/24/1913
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- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
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Assmann, Jan. "Preservation and Presentation of Self in Ancient Egyptian Portraiture." In Peter Der Manuelian, ed., Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson 1. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1996. p. 59, fig. 3.
Dunham, Dows. The Egyptian Department and its Excavations. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1958, pp. 44-46,.fig. 27c.
Millet, N.B. "The Reserve Heads of the Old Kingdom." In William Kelly Simpson and Whitney M. Davis, eds. Studies in Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Sudan: Essays in Honor of Dows Dunham on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday, June 1, 1980. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1981, pp. 129-130.
Reisner, George A. "Accessions to the Egyptian Department During 1914." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 13, No. 76 (April 1915), pp. 31-32, 34, fig. 8.
Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 477.
Sanborn, Ashton. "New Installation of Egyptian Sculpture." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 23, No. 140 (December 1925), p. 73.
Smith, William Stevenson. "Old Kingdom Sculpture." American Journal of Archaeology 45 (1941), pp. 525-526, fig. 4.
Smith, William Stevenson. Ancient Egypt as Represented in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1960 (6th ed.), p. 34, 35, fig. 10.
ID: HUMFA_C5355_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4440
Description: Cemetery G 4000: G 4440 A, two limestone reserve heads (13-11-90 = MFA 14.718, 13-11-91 = MFA 14.719) in situ, looking WSW
ID: HUMFA_C5356_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4440
Description: Cemetery G 4000: G 4440 A, two limestone reserve heads (13-11-90 = MFA 14.718, 13-11-91 = MFA 14.719) in situ, looking WSW
ID: HUMFA_C5358_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4440
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4440 A (front): 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718)
ID: HUMFA_C5359_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4440
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4440 A (quarter view proper left): 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718)
ID: HUMFA_C5360_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4440
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4440 A (quarter view proper right): 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718)
ID: HUMFA_C5361_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4440
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4440 A (profile proper left): 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718)
ID: HUMFA_C5362_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4440
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4440 A (profile proper right): 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718)
ID: HUMFA_C5441_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4640, G 4540, G 4340, G 4240, G 4140, G 4440
Description: Eight limestone reserve heads: [G 4640] 13-12-7 (= Cairo JE 46216), [G 4540] 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328), [G 4340] 13-10-69 (= Cairo JE 46218), [G 4240] 13-11-60 (= Cairo JE 46215), [G 4140] 13-11-1 (= Cairo JE 46217), [G 4140] 13-10-70 (= MFA 14.717), [G 4440] 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718), [G 4440] 13-11-91 (= MFA 14.719) (photographed in Harvard Camp workroom)
ID: HUMFA_C5442_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4640, G 4540, G 4340, G 4240, G 4140, G 4440
Description: Eight limestone reserve heads: [G 4640] 13-12-7 (= Cairo JE 46216), [G 4540] 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328), [G 4340] 13-10-69 (= Cairo JE 46218), [G 4240] 13-11-60 (= Cairo JE 46215), [G 4140] 13-10-70 (= MFA 14.717), [G 4140] 13-11-1 (= Cairo JE 46217), [G 4440] 13-11-91 (= MFA 14.719), [G 4440] 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718) (photographed in Harvard Camp workroom)
ID: HUMFA_C5443_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4640, G 4540, G 4340, G 4240, G 4140, G 4440
Description: Eight limestone reserve heads: [G 4640] 13-12-7 (= Cairo JE 46216), [G 4540] 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328), [G 4340] 13-10-69 (= Cairo JE 46218), [G 4240] 13-11-60 (= Cairo JE 46215), [G 4140] 13-10-70 (= MFA 14.717), [G 4140] 13-11-1 (= Cairo JE 46217), [G 4440] 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718), [G 4440] 13-11-91 (= MFA 14.719) (photographed in Harvard Camp workroom)
ID: HUMFA_C5444_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4640, G 4540, G 4340, G 4240, G 4140, G 4440
Description: Eight limestone reserve heads: [G 4640] 13-12-7 (= Cairo JE 46216), [G 4540] 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328), [G 4340] 13-10-69 (= Cairo JE 46218), [G 4240] 13-11-60 (= Cairo JE 46215), [G 4140] 13-10-70 (= MFA 14.717), [G 4140] 13-11-1 (= Cairo JE 46217), [G 4440] 13-11-91 (= MFA 14.719), [G 440] 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718) (photographed in Harvard Camp workroom)
ID: MFAB_AAW602
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4440
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4440 A (back): 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718)
ID: MFAB_AAW604
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4440
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4440 A (profile proper right): 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718)
ID: MFAB_AAW630
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4440
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4440 A (front): 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718)
ID: MFAB_AAW633
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4440
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4440 A (back): 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718)
ID: MFAB_AAW635
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4440
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4440 A (quarter view proper left): 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718)
ID: MFAB_AAW650
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4440
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4440 A (back): 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718)
ID: MFAB_AAW652
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4440
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4440 A (front): 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718)
ID: MFAB_AAW654
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4440
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4440 A (profile proper right): 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718)
ID: MFAB_AAW658
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4440
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4440 A (profile proper left): 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718)
ID: MFAB_AAW660
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4440
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4440 A (quarter view proper left): 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718)
ID: MFAB_AAW703
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4440
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4440 A (front): 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718)
ID: MFAB_AAW1620
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4440
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4440 A (front): 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718)
ID: MFAB_AAW1733
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4440
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4440 A (profile proper right): 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718)
ID: MFAB_AAW1734
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4440
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4440 A (profile proper left): 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718)
ID: MFAB_AAW1735
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4440
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4440 A (back): 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718)
ID: MFAB_AAW1736
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4440
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4440 A (quarter view proper left): 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718)
ID: MFAB_AAW1813
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4440
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4440 A (front): 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718)
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