Unfinished gneiss statuette of Menkaure

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]

ID

MFAB_11.733a-c
Department

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Classification

Sculpture
Findspot

Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / room 2 = offering room)
Material

Anorthosite gneiss
Dimensions

Height x width (throne): 44 x 17.5 cm (17 5/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
Credit Line

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

MFA
Period

Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Menkaure
Owner

Menkaure
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)
Remarks

Registration number obtained from publication; no registration records available for 1908.

Menkaure Valley Temple
- Site Name Menkaure Pyramid Complex

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

Menkaure
- 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.