Digital Giza | Limestone seated statue

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7772

Crude limestone statuette (cf. 28-5-218, this is smaller of the two), seated figure. Illustration: No

ID

EMC_JE_72141
Department

Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Classification

Sculpture
Findspot

Debris on wall of G 7772
Material

Limestone
Dimensions

Height 26 cm Width: base: 14 cm Length: base: 12 cm
Credit Line

Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number

HUMFA_28-5-219
Cairo Special Register number

EMC_SR_2/15248
Object Ownership Information

In the collection of: Egyptian Museum, Cairo (EMC_JE_72141)
Date of Register Entry

05/21/1928
Object owned by

Egyptian Museum, Cairo

Freed, Rita E. "Rethiking the Rules for Old Kingdom Sculpture. Observations on Poses and Attributes of Limestone Statuary from Giza." In Miroslav Bárta, ed. The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology. Proceedings of the Conference held in Prague, May 31-June 4, 2004. Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2006, pp. 146-7, 149, 156, figs. 3, 4, 7, 14.

Limestone seated statue