Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Unfinished gneiss seated statuette of Menkaure; fifth step of work; broken, slightly chipped. [1908 no. 17 = published no. 32 = 08-7-25]
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- ID
- MFAB_11.733a-c
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- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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- Classification
- Sculpture
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- Findspot
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / room 2 = offering room)
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- Material
- Anorthosite gneiss
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- Dimensions
- Height x width (throne): 44 x 17.5 cm (17 5/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
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- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Object Ownership Information
- MFA
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- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Menkaure
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- Owner
- Menkaure
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- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 1908: Excavated by the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; 1911: assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt. (Accession date: March 2, 1911)
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- Remarks
- Registration number obtained from publication; no registration records available for 1908.
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- Site Name Menkaure Pyramid Complex
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Grzymski, Krzysztof. "Royal Statuary." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 52.
Hery, François-Xavier. "L'"inachevé" à la salle souterraine de la pyramide de Kheops." Sesto Congresso Internazionale di Egittologia. Atti, Volume I. Turin, 1993, pp. 260-261.
Manuelian, Peter Der. "Excavating the Old Kingdom. The Giza Necropolis and Other Mastaba Fields." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 145.
Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, pp. 36, 112.
Ancient People
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- Type Owner
- Remarks Fifth king of Dynasty 4. Son of Khafre. Husband of Khamerernebti II. Builder of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Known two thousand years later by the Greeks as King Mycerinus.
ID: HUMFA_A253_NS
Subjects: Menkaure Pyramid Complex: Site: Giza; View: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Menkaure valley temple, offering room (= room I = published plan room 2), unfinished statuettes (1908) nos. 15, 16, 17, 22 (= published nos. 27 = 08-7-24 = MFA 11.729, 29, 32 = 08-7-25 = MFA 11.733a-c, 39) in situ, looking W
ID: HUMFA_A254_NS
Subjects: Menkaure Pyramid Complex: Site: Giza; View: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Menkaure valley temple, offering room (= room I = published plan room 2), unfinished statuettes (1908) nos. 15, 16, 17, 22 (= published nos. 27 = 08-7-24 = MFA 11.729, 29, 32 = 08-7-25 = MFA 11.733a-c, 39) in situ, looking W (nearer view than A253)
ID: HUMFA_C552_NS
Subjects: Menkaure Pyramid Complex: Site: Giza; View: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Menkaure valley temple, offering room (= room I = published plan room 2), unfinished statuettes (1908) nos. 15, 16, 17, 22 (= published nos. 27 = 08-7-24 = MFA 11.729, 29, 32 = 08-7-25 = MFA 11.733a-c, 39) in situ, looking SW
ID: HUMFA_C553_NS
Subjects: Menkaure Pyramid Complex: Site: Giza; View: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Menkaure valley temple, offering room (= room I = published plan room 2), unfinished statuettes (1908) nos. 15, 16, 17, 22 (= published nos. 27 = 08-7-24 = MFA 11.729, 29, 32 = 08-7-25 = MFA 11.733a-c, 39) in situ, looking W
ID: HUMFA_C591_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 17 (= published no. 32) from Menkaure valley temple (profile proper left): 08-7-25 (= MFA 11.733a-c)
ID: HUMFA_C592_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 17 (= published no. 32) from Menkaure valley temple (quarter view proper left): 08-7-25 (= MFA 11.733a-c)
ID: HUMFA_C598_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 17 (= published no. 32) from Menkaure valley temple (front): 08-7-25 (= MFA 11.733a-c)
ID: HUMFA_C2867_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 17 (= published no. 32) from Menkaure valley temple (quarter view proper right): 08-7-25 (= MFA 11.733a-c)
ID: MFAB_AAW476
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 17 (= published no. 32) from Menkaure valley temple (front): 08-7-25 (= MFA 11.733a-c)
ID: MFAB_AAW478
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 17 (= published no. 32) from Menkaure valley temple (front): 08-7-25 (= MFA 11.733a-c)
ID: MFAB_AAW479
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 17 (= published no. 32) from Menkaure valley temple (front): 08-7-25 (= MFA 11.733a-c)
ID: MFAB_AAW495
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 17 (= published no. 32) from Menkaure valley temple (quarter view proper left): 08-7-25 (= MFA 11.733a-c)
ID: MFAB_AAW497
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 17 (= published no. 32) from Menkaure valley temple (front): 08-7-25 (= MFA 11.733a-c)
ID: MFAB_AAW500
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 17 (= published no. 32) from Menkaure valley temple (front): 08-7-25 (= MFA 11.733a-c).
ID: MFAB_AAW519
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 17 (= published no. 32) from Menkaure valley temple (quarter view proper left): 08-7-25 (= MFA 11.733a-c)
ID: MFAB_AAW521
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 17 (= published no. 32) from Menkaure valley temple (profile proper left): 08-7-25 (= MFA 11.733a-c)
ID: MFAB_AAW1799
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 17 (= published no. 32) from Menkaure valley temple (front): 08-7-25 (= MFA 11.733a-c)
ID: MFAB_AAW1802
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 17 (= published no. 32) from Menkaure valley temple (front): 08-7-25 (= MFA 11.733a-c)
ID: MFAB_AAW1822
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 17 (= published no. 32) from Menkaure valley temple (quarter view proper left): 08-7-25 (= MFA 11.733a-c)
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