Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2415
Painted limestone striding statue of a man with left leg advanced, wearing a short echelonned wig and a kilt. The upper part of his face and nose is damaged. Considerable paint traces remain: red on face and body, blue on belt knot and turquoise on the tab and yellow on the kilt flap. Black originally covered the hair and all the nonfigural areas.
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- ID
- MMA_L.1996.81
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- Department
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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- Classification
- Sculpture
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- Findspot
- Mastaba G 2415, serdab
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- Material
- Limestone
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- Dimensions
- Legacy dimension: H. 0.800
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- Credit Line
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, loaned by Lewis M. Dubroff
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- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston accession number
- MFAB_21.2595
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- Object Ownership Information
- MMA_L.1996.81, loaned to MMA by Lewis M. Dubroff; deaccessioned MFAB_21.2595
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- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5
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- Institution
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- Notes
- Excavated by the Harvard-Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expediton in Giza in 1920, but not recorded in any object register book. Received in 1921 from the Egyptian Government by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in the allotment of finds (MFAB_21.2595). Deaccessioned September 21, 1978; now in collection of Lewis M. Dubroff on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, since 1996.
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- Remarks
- MFAB_21.2595 deaccessioned = collection of Lewis M. Dubroff on loan to Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, MMA_L.1996.81.
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- Problems/Questions
- MFA and MMA accession numbers verified
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
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Sanborn, Ashton. "Recent Acquisitions from Egypt. New Installation of the Primitive and Old Empire Rooms." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 20, No. 11 (April 1922), p. 25, unnumbered fig.
Smith, William Stevenson. Ancient Egypt as Represented in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1960 (6th ed.), p. 56.
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- Type Institution
ID: HUMFA_C12752_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2415
Description: Cemetery G 2400: G 2415, Weri, serdab, half cleared, statues (including MFA 21.2595 deaccessioned = MMA L.1996.81, MFA 21.2596, MFA 21.2597) in situ, looking N (rephotograph of B3905)
ID: HUMFA_B3903_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2415
Description: Cemetery G 2400: G 2415, Weri, chapel, offering stone on floor in front of N false door, and half cleared serdab, statues (including MFA 21.2595 deaccessioned = MMA L.1996.81, MFA 21.2596, MFA 21.2597) in situ, looking N
ID: HUMFA_B3904_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2415
Description: Cemetery G 2400: G 2415, Weri, serdab, half cleared, statues (including MFA 21.2595 deaccessioned = MMA L.1996.81, MFA 21.2596, MFA 21.2597, MFA 21.2598, MFA 21.2599) in situ, looking N
ID: HUMFA_B3905_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2415
Description: Cemetery G 2400: G 2415, Weri, serdab, half cleared, statues (including MFA 21.2595 deaccessioned = MMA L.1996.81, MFA 21.2596, MFA 21.2597) in situ, looking N (rephotographed as C12752)
ID: HUMFA_B3914_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2415
Description: Uninscribed limestone standing statue (no. 7) from G 2415, serdab (front): MFA 21.2595 (deaccessioned = Metropolitan Museum of Art L.1996.81)
ID: HUMFA_B3915_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2415
Description: Uninscribed limestone standing statue (no. 7) from G 2415, serdab (front): MFA 21.2595 (deaccessioned = Metropolitan Museum of Art L.1996.81)
ID: HUMFA_B3916_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2415
Description: Uninscribed limestone standing statue (no. 7) from G 2415, serdab (quarter view proper right): MFA 21.2595 (deaccessioned = Metropolitan Museum of Art L.1996.81)
ID: HUMFA_B3917_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2415
Description: Uninscribed limestone standing statue (no. 7) from G 2415, serdab (quarter view proper right): MFA 21.2595 (deaccessioned = Metropolitan Museum of Art L.1996.81)
ID: HUMFA_B3918_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2415
Description: Uninscribed limestone standing statue (no. 7) from G 2415, serdab (head and torso, quarter view proper left): MFA 21.2595 (deaccessioned = Metropolitan Museum of Art L.1996.81)
ID: HUMFA_B3919_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2415
Description: Uninscribed limestone standing statue (no. 7) from G 2415, serdab (head and torso, quarter view proper left): MFA 21.2595 (deaccessioned = Metropolitan Museum of Art L.1996.81)
ID: MMA_PDM_2011_019
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: G 2415
Description: Uninscribed limestone standing statue (MMA_L.1996.81, in collection of Lewis M. Dubroff on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
ID: MMA_PDM_2011_020
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: G 2415
Description: Uninscribed limestone standing statue (MMA_L.1996.81, in collection of Lewis M. Dubroff on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
ID: MMA_PDM_2011_021
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: G 2415
Description: Head of uninscribed limestone standing statue (MMA_L.1996.81, in collection of Lewis M. Dubroff on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
ID: MMA_PDM_2011_022
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: G 2415
Description: Head of uninscribed limestone standing statue (MMA_L.1996.81, in collection of Lewis M. Dubroff on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
ID: MMA_PDM_2011_023
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: G 2415
Description: Uninscribed limestone standing statue (MMA_L.1996.81, in collection of Lewis M. Dubroff on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
ID: MMA_PDM_2011_024
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: G 2415
Description: Uninscribed limestone standing statue (MMA_L.1996.81, in collection of Lewis M. Dubroff on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
ID: MMA_PDM_2011_025
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: G 2415
Description: Head of uninscribed limestone standing statue (MMA_L.1996.81, in collection of Lewis M. Dubroff on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
ID: MMA_PDM_2011_018
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: G 2415
Description: Uninscribed limestone standing statue (MMA_L.1996.81, in collection of Lewis M. Dubroff on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
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