Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: street G 7600, G 7650
[Block of limestone relief; raised relief, inscription and part of face; joins 29-7-21 and 29-7-22]. Illustration: Yes with hieroglyphs. Illustration scale: 1:4
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- ID
- HUMFA_29-3-87
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- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Classification
- Architectural elements-Relief
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- Findspot
- Street G 7600, E of mastaba G 7650, originally from G 7650 a, chapel
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- Material
- Limestone
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- Dimensions
- Height: 35.7 cm Width: 34 cm
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- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Object Ownership Information
- MFA accession numbers: 30.831, 37.2620
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- Date of Register Entry
- 03/10/1929
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- Owner
- Meretites (G 7650)
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- Remarks
- 29-3-87 = MFA 30.831 (one block with inscription and part of face) joins and is now part of MFA 37.2620 = 29-3-88 (one fragment with inscription and part of proper right arm) + 29-7-21 (one block with inscription) + 29-7-22 (one block with back of wig and proper right shoulder + two of three additional fragments also registered as 29-7-22: one with inscription, one with part of proper right arm and lower body).
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- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession numbers verified
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- Site Name Eastern Cemetery
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- Site Name Eastern Cemetery
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Flentye, Laurel. "The Development of Art in the Eastern and GIS Cemeteries at Giza during the Fourth Dynasty: Iconography and Style." In Jean-Claude Goyon and Christine Cardin, eds. Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Egyptologists, Grenoble, 6-12 septembre 2004, vol. I. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 150. Leuven: Uitgeveru Peeters en Departement Oosterse Studies, 2007, p. 726.
Flentye, Laurel. "The Mastabas of Ankh-haf (G 7510) and Akhethetep and Meretites (G 7650) in the Eastern Cemetery at Giza: A Reassessment." In Zahi Hawass and Janet Richards, eds. The Archaeology and Art of Ancient Egypt. Essays in Honor of David B. O'Connor, Vol. I. Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte, Cahier no. 36. Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities, 2007, pp. 296, 297, 301, 302, 303, fig. 7.
Ancient People
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- Type Owner
- Remarks Owner (with husband Akhethetep) of G 7650. Identified as [sAt nswt n Xt=f Hm-nTr xwfw Hm-nTr HwtHr Hm-nTr Nt] king's daughter of his body, priestess of Khufu, priestess of Hathor, priestess of Neith. Parents are probably Khufu and Meretites [I].
ID: HUMFA_EG021139
Subjects: Drawings: G 7650: relief fragments
Description: Drawing: fragments of relief from G 7650: MFA 37.2620
ID: HUMFA_EG000515
Subjects: Drawings: G 7650: relief from chapel, E wall
Description: Line drawing: whole figure and hieroglyphs from E wall of chapel of G 7650, Meretites: MFA 37.2620
ID: MFAB_AAW862
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7650
Description: Fragments of painted limestone relief (standing figure of Meretites) from G 7650 a, chapel, E wall: MFA 37.2620 (= 29-3-88 + 29-7-21 + 29-7-22 + MFA 30.831 = 29-3-87)
ID: HUMFA_EG000514
Subjects: Drawings: G 7650: relief from chapel, E wall
Description: Drawing: face from E wall of chapel of G 7650, Meretites: top left: block of limestone relief, 29-7-21 (=MFA 37.2620); top right: fragment with inscription containing cartouche of Khufu and part of head, 29-3-87 (=MFA 30.831); bottom left: fragment with part of vertical inscription, 29-3-88 (=part of MFA 37.2620)
ID: HUMFA_B6839_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: street G 7600, G 7650
Description: Three fragments of limestone relief from street G 7600, E of G 7650: left: [originally from G 7650 a, chapel] 29-3-87 (= MFA 30.831, part of MFA 37.2620); right upper: 29-3-81 (= MFA 37.2619); right lower: [originally from G 7650 a, chapel] 29-3-88 (part of MFA 37.2620)
ID: MFAB_AAW1643
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7650
Description: Block of painted limestone relief from street G 7600, originally from G 7650 a, chapel, Akhethetep and Meritites: 29-3-87 (= MFA 30.831, part of MFA 37.2620)
ID: HUMFA_B9169_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7650
Description: Rephotograph of photographs of inscribed raised relief fragments from G 7650 a, chapel, Akhethetep and Meretites: top: two female figures facing left with cartouche of Khufu between them (Gulbenkian collection); bottom: standing figure of Meretites facing right with vertical inscription above: MFA 37.2620 (= 29-3-88 + 29-7-21 + 29-7-22 + MFA 30.831 = 29-3-87)
ID: HUMFA_EG021128
Subjects: Drawings: G 7650: fragments of relief from E wall, upper part, N end
Description: Drawing: fragments of limestone relief from E wall, upper part, N end, of G 7650: top left: 29-7-21 (=MFA 37.2620); top right: 29-3-87 (=MFA 30.831); 2nd row left: 29-7-22 (=MFA 37.2620); 3rd row left: 29-3-88 (=MFA 37.2620)
