Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Unfinished gneiss seated statuette of Menkaure; third step in work, red guide lines for workman visible; good condition. [1908 no. 15 = published no. 27 = 08-7-24]
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- ID
- MFAB_11.729
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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 x depth: 43 x 16 x 24.7 cm (16 15/16 x 6 5/16 x 9 3/4 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. 8b.
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_B606_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Bust from granite statue (1910) no. 3 (= published no. 44) from Menkaure valley temple: 09-12-1; unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 15 (= published no. 27) from Menkaure valley temple (quarter view proper right): 08-7-24 (= MFA 11.729)
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_C583_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 15 (= published no. 27) from Menkaure valley temple (back): 08-7-24 (= MFA 11.729)
ID: HUMFA_C585_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 15 (= published no. 27) from Menkaure valley temple (profile proper left): 08-7-24 (= MFA 11.729)
ID: HUMFA_C602_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 15 (= published no. 27) from Menkaure valley temple (front): 08-7-24 (= MFA 11.729)
ID: HUMFA_C603_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 15 (= published no. 27) from Menkaure valley temple (front): 08-7-24 (= MFA 11.729)
ID: HUMFA_C604_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 15 (= published no. 27) from Menkaure valley temple (front): 08-7-24 (= MFA 11.729)
ID: HUMFA_C605_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 15 (= published no. 27) from Menkaure valley temple (front): 08-7-24 (= MFA 11.729)
ID: HUMFA_C4551_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 15 (= published no. 27) from Menkaure valley temple (quarter view proper right): 08-7-24 (= MFA 11.729). [Image also known as: C1784_NS]
ID: MFAB_AAW441
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 15 (= published no. 27) from Menkaure valley temple (front): 08-7-24 (= MFA 11.729)
ID: MFAB_AAW443
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 15 (= published no. 27) from Menkaure valley temple (front): 08-7-24 (= MFA 11.729)
ID: MFAB_AAW449
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 15 (= published no. 27) from Menkaure valley temple (front): 08-7-24 (= MFA 11.729)
ID: MFAB_AAW471
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 15 (= published no. 27) from Menkaure valley temple (front): 08-7-24 (= MFA 11.729)
ID: MFAB_AAW483
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 15 (= published no. 27) from Menkaure valley temple (quarter view proper left): 08-7-24 (= MFA 11.729)
ID: MFAB_AAW486
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 15 (= published no. 27) from Menkaure valley temple (quarter view proper right): 08-7-24 (= MFA 11.729)
ID: MFAB_AAW489
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 15 (= published no. 27) from Menkaure valley temple (front, detail of head): 08-7-24 (= MFA 11.729)
ID: MFAB_AAW1801
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 15 (= published no. 27) from Menkaure valley temple (front): 08-7-24 (= MFA 11.729)
ID: MFAB_AAW1820
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 15 (= published no. 27) from Menkaure valley temple (quarter view proper left): 08-7-24 (= MFA 11.729)
ID: MFAB_AAW1821
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure Valley Temple
Description: Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 15 (= published no. 27) from Menkaure valley temple (quarter view proper right): 08-7-24 (= MFA 11.729)
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