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Limestone reserve head

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4640

White limestone [reserve] head of male. Illustration: No

Details

  • ID
    EMC_JE_46216
  • Department
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Classification
    Sculpture
  • Findspot
    Pit G 4640 A, shaft
  • Material
    Limestone
  • Dimensions
    19.5 cm
  • Credit Line
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
    HUMFA_13-12-7
  • Cairo Special Register number
    EMC_SR_2/14724
  • Object Ownership Information
    In the collection of: Egyptian Museum, Cairo (EMC_JE_46216)
  • Period
    Old Kingdom
  • Date of Register Entry
    12/11/1913
  • Object owned by
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 4640

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Published Documents 1

Unpublished Documents 3

Full Bibliography

  • 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, 35, fig. 14.

    Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 482, pls. 50e and 55b.

    Saleh, Mohamed, and Hourig Sourouzian. The Egyptian Museum, Cairo: Official Catalogue. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, cat. 32 (incorrectly attributed to G 4240 A).

Institutions 1