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
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- ID
- MMA_48.156
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- Department
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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- Classification
- Sculpture
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- Findspot
- Pit G 7560 B
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- Material
- Limestone
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- Dimensions
- Height: 27 cm Width: 16 cm Thickness: 21 cm
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- Credit Line
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1948
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- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
- HUMFA_36-12-5
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- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston accession number
- MFAB_37.643
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- Object Ownership Information
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, MMA_48.156; deaccessioned MFAB_37.643
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- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
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- Date of Register Entry
- 12/30/1936
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- Object owned by
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- 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.
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- Problems/Questions
- MFA and MMA accession numbers verified
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- Site Name Eastern Cemetery
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- Type Object owned by
ID: HUMFA_B8767A_NS
Subjects: Eastern Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 7560
Description: Cemetery G 7000: G 7560 B, two fragments of limestone reserve head (36-12-5 = MFA 37.643 deaccessioned = MMA 48.156) in situ in pit, looking E
ID: HUMFA_B8781_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7560
Description: Fragmentary limestone reserve head from G 7560 B (profile proper right): 36-12-5 (= MFA 37.643 deaccessioned = Metropolitan Museum of Art 48.156)
ID: HUMFA_B8782_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7650
Description: Fragmentary limestone reserve head from G 7560 B (front): 36-12-5 (= MFA 37.643 deaccessioned = Metropolitan Museum of Art 48.156)
ID: HUMFA_B8783_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7650
Description: Fragmentary limestone reserve head from G 7560 B (profile proper left): 36-12-5 (= MFA 37.643 deaccessioned = Metropolitan Museum of Art 48.156)
ID: HUMFA_C13985_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7560
Description: Fragmentary limestone reserve head from G 7560 B (back): 36-12-5 (= MFA 37.643 deaccessioned = Metropolitan Museum of Art 48.156)
ID: MFAB_AAW2052
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7560
Description: Metropolitan Museum of Art: fragmentary limestone reserve head from G 7560 B (front): 36-12-5 (= MFA 37.643 deaccessioned = MMA 48.156)
ID: MFAB_AAW2053
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7560
Description: Metropolitan Museum of Art: fragmentary limestone reserve head from G 7560 B (profile proper right): 36-12-5 (= MFA 37.643 deaccessioned = MMA 48.156)
ID: MFAB_AAW2054
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7560
Description: Metropolitan Museum of Art: fragmentary limestone reserve head from G 7560 B (profile proper left): 36-12-5 (= MFA 37.643 deaccessioned = MMA 48.156)
ID: MMA_48.156_001
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: G 7560
Description: Fragmentary limestone reserve head (MMA_48.156)
ID: MMA_48.156_002
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: G 7560
Description: Fragmentary limestone reserve head (MMA_48.156)
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