Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Unfinished gneiss seated statuette of Menkaure; fifth step of work, ready for surfacing, base highly polished; good condition. [1908 no. 18 = published no. 35 = 08-7-13]
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- ID
- MFAB_11.732
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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 D = corridor III 4, N end)
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- Material
- Anorthosite gneiss
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- Dimensions
- Height x width x depth: 36 x 16 x 23.2 cm (14 3/16 x 6 5/16 x 9 1/8 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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Freed, Rita E., Lawrence M. Berman, and Denise M. Doxey. Arts of Ancient Egypt. MFA Highlights. Boston: MFA Publications, 2003, p. 82.
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.
Markowitz, Yvonne J., Joyce L. Haynes, and Rita E. Freed. Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids: Highlights from the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expedition. Boston: MFA Publications, 2002, p. 60, cat. 8c.
Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, pp. 36, 113 (misidentified as 08-7-3 on p. 113).
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_B455_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 18 (= published no. 35) from Menkaure valley temple (front): 08-7-13 (= MFA 11.732)
ID: HUMFA_B602_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 18 (= published no. 35) from Menkaure valley temple (quarter view proper right): 08-7-13 (= MFA 11.732)
ID: HUMFA_C561_NS
Subjects: Menkaure Pyramid Complex: Site: Giza; View: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Menkaure valley temple, S magazines, corridor III 4, N end opposite room III 5, statuettes (1908) nos. 18, 19, 24 (= published nos. 35 = 08-7-13 = MFA 11.732, 31 = 08-7-12 = MFA 11.724, 37 = 08-7-14) in situ, looking SE
ID: HUMFA_C562_NS
Subjects: Menkaure Pyramid Complex: Site: Giza; View: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Menkaure valley temple, S magazines, corridor III 4, N end opposite room III 5, statuettes (1908) nos. 18, 19, 24 (= published nos. 35 = 08-7-13 = MFA 11.732, 31 = 08-7-12 = MFA 11.724, 37 = 08-7-14) in situ, looking SE (same stage of excavation as C561)
ID: HUMFA_C563_NS
Subjects: Menkaure Pyramid Complex: Site: Giza; View: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Menkaure valley temple, S magazines, corridor III 4, N end opposite room III 5, statuettes (1908) nos. 25, 18, 19, 24 (= published nos. 43, 35 = 08-7-13 = MFA 11.732, 31 = 08-7-12 = MFA 11.724, 37 = 08-7-14) in situ, looking SE (later stage of excavation than C562)
ID: HUMFA_C575_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 18 (= published no. 35) from Menkaure valley temple (front): 08-7-13 (= MFA 11.732)
ID: HUMFA_C579_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 18 (= published no. 35) from Menkaure valley temple (quarter view proper left): 08-7-13 (= MFA 11.732)
ID: HUMFA_C595_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 18 (= published no. 35) from Menkaure valley temple (profile proper left): 08-7-13 (= MFA 11.732)
ID: HUMFA_C4546_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 18 (= published no. 35) from Menkaure valley temple (quarter view proper right): 08-7-13 (= MFA 11.732). [Image also known as: C1779_NS]
ID: HUMFA_C4547_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 18 (= published no. 35) from Menkaure valley temple (quarter view proper right): 08-7-13 (= MFA 11.732). [Image also known as: C1780_NS]
ID: HUMFA_C4548_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 18 (= published no. 35) from Menkaure valley temple (quarter view proper right): 08-7-13 (= MFA 11.732). [Image also known as: C1781_NS]
ID: HUMFA_C4574_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 18 (= published no. 35) from Menkaure valley temple (front): 08-7-13 (= MFA 11.732). [Image also known as: C1807_NS]
ID: MFAB_AAW439
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple, G 2381, G 2150
Description: Statuettes of Menkaure and tools: unfinished gneiss seated statuettes from Menkaure valley temple (from left to right): (1908) no. 13 (= published no. 25 = 08-7-1 = MFA 11.731), (1908) no. 14 (= published no. 26 = 08-7-8 = MFA 11.730), (1908) no. 18 (= published no. 35 = 08-7-13 = MFA 11.732); granite hammer from G 2150: MFA 06.1878; copper chisels from G 2381: 12-12-137 (= MFA 13.3428), 12-12-139 (= MFA 13.3426)
ID: MFAB_AAW447
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple, G 2381, G 2150
Description: Statuettes of Menkaure and tools: unfinished gneiss seated statuettes from Menkaure valley temple (from left to right): (1908) no. 13 (= published no. 25 = 08-7-1 = MFA 11.731), (1908) no. 14 (= published no. 26 = 08-7-8 = MFA 11.730), (1908) no. 18 (= published no. 35 = 08-7-13 = MFA 11.732); granite hammer from G 2150: MFA 06.1878; copper chisels from G 2381: 12-12-137 (= MFA 13.3428), 12-12-139 (= MFA 13.3426)
ID: MFAB_AAW480
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 18 (= published no. 35) from Menkaure valley temple (front): 08-7-13 (= MFA 11.732)
ID: MFAB_AAW505
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 18 (= published no. 35) from Menkaure valley temple (front): 08-7-13 (= MFA 11.732)
ID: MFAB_AAW507
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 18 (= published no. 35) from Menkaure valley temple (front): 08-7-13 (= MFA 11.732)
ID: MFAB_AAW509
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 18 (= published no. 35) from Menkaure valley temple (back): 08-7-13 (= MFA 11.732)
ID: MFAB_AAW511
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 18 (= published no. 35) from Menkaure valley temple (quarter view proper left): 08-7-13 (= MFA 11.732)
ID: MFAB_AAW534
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 18 (= published no. 35) from Menkaure valley temple (quarter view proper left): 08-7-13 (= MFA 11.732)
ID: MFAB_AAW538
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 18 (= published no. 35) from Menkaure valley temple (profile proper right): 08-7-13 (= MFA 11.732)
ID: MFAB_AAW540
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 18 (= published no. 35) from Menkaure valley temple (profile proper right): 08-7-13 (= MFA 11.732)
ID: MFAB_AAW542
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 18 (= published no. 35) from Menkaure valley temple (profile proper left): 08-7-13 (= MFA 11.732)
ID: MFAB_AAW1786
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 18 (= published no. 35) from Menkaure valley temple (front): 08-7-13 (= MFA 11.732)
ID: MFAB_AAW1787
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 18 (= published no. 35) from Menkaure valley temple (profile proper right): 08-7-13 (= MFA 11.732)
ID: MFAB_AAW1788
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 18 (= published no. 35) from Menkaure valley temple (back): 08-7-13 (= MFA 11.732)
ID: MFAB_AAW1789
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 18 (= published no. 35) from Menkaure valley temple (profile proper left): 08-7-13 (= MFA 11.732)
ID: MFAB_AAW1790
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 18 (= published no. 35) from Menkaure valley temple (quarter view proper left): 08-7-13 (= MFA 11.732)
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