Digital Giza | Fragmentary limestone reserve head

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: G 7560

White limestone reserve head; broken in eight fragments, some still missing from right and left cheek, right temple and back of head, as well as one and a half ears. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:3

ID

MMA_48.156
Department

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Classification

Sculpture
Findspot

Pit G 7560 B
Material

Limestone
Dimensions

Height: 27 cm Width: 16 cm Thickness: 21 cm
Credit Line

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1948
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number

HUMFA_36-12-5
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston accession number

MFAB_37.643
Object Ownership Information

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, MMA_48.156; deaccessioned MFAB_37.643
Period

Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
Date of Register Entry

12/30/1936
Object owned by

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Notes

Excavated by the Harvard-Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expediton in Giza, 1936. Received from the Egyptian Government by the MFA in the allotment of finds (MFAB_37.643). Deaccessioned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on December 6, 1948.
Problems/Questions

MFA and MMA accession numbers verified