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2 of 25 • Limestone statue of Ptahneferti as a boy from G 2009, serdab (front): MFA 06.1881. [Image also known as: B7822_NS]

Cemetery G 2000: G 2009, serdab, statues (standing pair statue = Cairo JE 38670, seated pair statue = MFA 06.1885, triad = MFA 06.1882, statue of boy = MFA 06.1881) and offering table (MFA 06.1883) in situ, looking NW

Limestone statue of Ptahneferti as a boy from G 2009, serdab (front): MFA 06.1881. [Image also known as: B7822_NS]

Limestone statue of Ptahneferti as a boy from G 2009, serdab (quarter view proper right): MFA 06.1881. [Image also known as: B7823_NS]

Cemetery G 2000: G 2009, serdab, statues (standing pair statue = Cairo JE 38670, seated pair statue = MFA 06.1885, triad = MFA 06.1882, statue of boy = MFA 06.1881) and offering table (MFA 06.1883) in situ, looking W. [Image also known as: B7816_NS]

Cemetery G 2000: G 2009, serdab, statues (standing pair statue = Cairo JE 38670, seated pair statue = MFA 06.1885, triad = MFA 06.1882, statue of boy = MFA 06.1881) and offering table (MFA 06.1883) in situ, looking N. [Image also known as: B7817_NS]

Cemetery G 2000: G 2009, serdab, statues (standing pair statue = Cairo JE 38670, seated pair statue = MFA 06.1885, triad = MFA 06.1882, statue of boy = MFA 06.1881) and offering table (MFA 06.1883) in situ, looking NW. [Image also known as: B7818_NS]

Cemetery G 2000: G 2009, serdab, statues (standing pair statue = Cairo JE 38670, seated pair statue = MFA 06.1885, triad = MFA 06.1882, statue of boy = MFA 06.1881) and offering table (MFA 06.1883) in situ, looking NW. [Image also known as: B7819_NS]

Limestone statue of Ptahneferti as a boy from G 2009, serdab (profile proper right): MFA 06.1881. [Image also known as: C12117_NS]

Limestone statue of Ptahneferti as a boy from G 2009, serdab (quarter view proper right): MFA 06.1881. [Image also known as: C12674_NS]

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2009

Painted limestone statuette of Ptahneferti as small boy; figure naked and wearing a sidelock stands with left foot forward, left arm at side, right arm raised with forefinger extended to touch lip (a characteristic gesture in Egyptian representations of children); body painted red, hair and eyebrows black, eyes yellow, base and back pillar black.

ID

MFAB_06.1881
Department

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Classification

Sculpture
Findspot

Mastaba G 2009, serdab
Material

Painted limestone
Dimensions

Height: 18 cm (7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line

Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Object Ownership Information

MFA
Period

Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5
Date of Register Entry

about 2465–2323 B.C.
Owner

Ptahneferti (in G 2009)
Notes

This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 1905-1906: Excavated by the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; 1906: assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt. (Accession Date: November 8, 1906)
Remarks

Object not registered (no registration records for 1903-1904-1905-1906).

G 2009
- Site Name Western Cemetery

Smith, William Stevenson. Ancient Egypt as Represented in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1960.
- Date: 1960

Bates, Oric. "Sculptures from the Excavations at Giza, 1905-1906." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 5, No. 26 (1907), p. 21.

D'Auria, Sue, Peter Lacovara, and Catharine H. Roehrig. Mummies & Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1988, p. 89, cat. 16.

Freed, Rita E., Lawrence M. Berman, and Denise M. Doxey. Arts of Ancient Egypt. MFA Highlights. Boston: MFA Publications, 2003, p. 92.

Smith, William Stevenson. Ancient Egypt as Represented in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1960 (6th ed.), pp. 56, 59, fig. 33.

Ancient People

Ptahneferti (in G 2009)
- Type Owner
- Remarks Limestone standing statue (MFA 06.1881) inscribed for Ptahneferti (depicted as young boy), identified as [Hmwtj] craftsman; found in situ in G 2009 serdab.