Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7000 X
Copy of arm chair from tomb of Hetepheres I; gilded wood; made by Joseph Gerte, Boston.
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- ID
- MFAB_38.957
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- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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- Classification
- Reproductions & paintings
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- Findspot
- G 7000 X (original). Reproduction commissioned for the MFA and made by Boston cabinetmaker Joseph Gerte, 1938.
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- Material
- Wood, gold, copper, silver, leather, faience, ebony
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- Dimensions
- Height x width x depth: 79.5 x 70.7 x 66 cm (31 5/16 x 27 13/16 x 26 in.)
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- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Charles Gaston Smith and Group of Friends
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- Object Ownership Information
- MFA
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- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Snefru - reign of Khufu
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- Attested
- Hetepheres I (G 7000 X)
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- Individual - Modern
- Joseph Gerte, American
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- Notes
- This is a reproduction of an object excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. (Accession Date: May 1, 1938)
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- Remarks
- Arm chair: original reconstruction in collection of Egyptian Museum, Cairo (JE 53263); copy in collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA 38.957).
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- Site Name Eastern Cemetery
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Dunham, Dows. The Egyptian Department and its Excavations. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1958, p. 62, fig. 39.
Dunham, Dows. Recollections of an Egyptologist. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1972, pp. 32-34.
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, pp. 48-51, cat. 1d.
Münch, Hans-Hubertus, "Categorizing Archaeological Finds: the Funerary Material of Queen Hetepheres I at Giza." Antiquity 74, No 286 (2000), p. 905.
No author. The Tomb of Queen Hetep-heres. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, no date, p. 10.
Reisner, George A. "Hetep-Heres, Mother of Cheops." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 25, supplement (May 1927), p. 12.
Reisner, George A. "The Household Furniture of Queen Hetep-heres I." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 27, No. 164 (December 1929), pp. 84-85, figs. 1-3.
Reisner, George A. "The Bed Canopy of the Mother of Cheops." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 30, no. 180 (August 1932), p. 55, unnumbered fig.
Smith, William Stevenson. Ancient Egypt as Represented in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1960 (6th ed.), pp. 68-69, fig. 40.
Ancient People
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Wife of King Snefru, founder of Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty, and mother of King Khufu, builder of the Great Pyramid. Her burial was hidden in a secret chamber (labeled G 7000 X) nearly 90 feet underground, and contained beautiful pieces of gilded and inlaid wooden furniture, silver jewelry, and a large alabaster sarcophagus that was found to be mysteriously empty.
Modern People
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- Type Individual - Modern
- Nationality & Dates American
ID: HUMFA_B6701_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7000 X
Description: G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, furniture: arm chair with openwork bound papyrus design (original reconstruction), part of arm and back: reconstruction = Cairo JE 53263, reproduction = MFA 38.957
ID: HUMFA_A6915_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7000 X
Description: G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, furniture: canopy (reconstruction = Cairo JE 57711, reproduction = MFA 38.873) with bed (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53261, reproduction = MFA 29.1858) and headrest (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53262, reproduction = MFA 29.1859), arm chair (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53263, reproduction = MFA 38.957), jewel box (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53265), view from right
ID: HUMFA_EG021371
Subjects: Drawings: G 7000 X: arm chair with papyrus arms
Description: Drawing by W.A. Stewart: arm chair with papyrus arms from G 7000 X, Hetepheres: MFA 38.957 (reproduction)
ID: HUMFA_B6761_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7000 X
Description: G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, furniture: arm chair with openwork bound papyrus design, restored (original reconstruction): reconstruction = Cairo JE 53263, reproduction = MFA 38.957
ID: HUMFA_B6762_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7000 X
Description: G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, furniture: arm chair with openwork bound papyrus design, restored (original reconstruction): reconstruction = Cairo JE 53263, reproduction = MFA 38.957
ID: HUMFA_B6696_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7000 X
Description: G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, furniture: arm chair with openwork bound papyrus design (original reconstruction), arm: reconstruction = Cairo JE 53263, reproduction = MFA 38.957
ID: HUMFA_A6906_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7000 X
Description: G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, furniture: canopy (reconstruction = Cairo JE 57711, reproduction = MFA 38.873) with bed (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53261, reproduction = MFA 29.1858) and headrest (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53262, reproduction = MFA 29.1859), arm chair (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53263, reproduction = MFA 38.957), jewel box (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53265), view from right
ID: HUMFA_EG021372
Subjects: Drawings: G 7000 X: arm chair with papyrus arms
Description: Watercolor painting by W.A. Stewart: arm chair with papyrus arms from G 7000 X, Hetepheres: MFA 38.957 (reproduction)
ID: HUMFA_B6702_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7000 X
Description: G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, furniture: arm chair with openwork bound papyrus design, restored (original reconstruction): reconstruction = Cairo JE 53263, reproduction = MFA 38.957
ID: HUMFA_A6904A_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7000 X
Description: G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, furniture: canopy (reconstruction = Cairo JE 57711, reproduction = MFA 38.873) with bed (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53261, reproduction = MFA 29.1858) and headrest (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53262, reproduction = MFA 29.1859), arm chair (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53263, reproduction = MFA 38.957), jewel box (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53265), view from front
ID: HUMFA_A6929A_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7000 X
Description: G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, furniture: canopy (reconstruction = Cairo JE 57711, reproduction = MFA 38.873) with bed (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53261, reproduction = MFA 29.1858) and headrest (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53262, reproduction = MFA 29.1859), arm chair (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53263, reproduction = MFA 38.957), jewel box (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53265), view from front
ID: HUMFA_A5044_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7000 X
Description: G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, furniture: arm chair with openwork bound papyrus design, restored (original reconstruction), (front): reconstruction = Cairo JE 53263, reproduction = MFA 38.957
ID: HUMFA_B6699_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7000 X
Description: G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, furniture: arm chair with openwork bound papyrus design (original reconstruction), part of back: recontruction = Cairo JE 53263, reproduction = MFA 38.957
ID: MFAB_AAW2049
Subjects: People & places: Site: Giza; View: G 7000 X
Description: Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts: modern reproductions of furniture of Queen Hetepheres I from G 7000 X: bed: MFA 29.1858; headrest: MFA 29.1859; canopy: MFA 38.873; arm chair: MFA 38.957; curtain box: MFA 39.746
ID: HUMFA_B6773_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7000 X
Description: G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, furniture: arm chair with openwork bound papyrus design, restored (original reconstruction): reconstruction = Cairo JE 53263, reproduction = MFA 38.957 (rephotograph of ____)
ID: HUMFA_B6700_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7000 X
Description: G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, furniture: arm chair with openwork bound papyrus design (original reconstruction), part of arm: reconstruction = Cairo JE 53263, reproduction = MFA 38.957
ID: HUMFA_B6697_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7000 X
Description: G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, furniture: arm chair with openwork bound papyrus design (original reconstruction), part of arm: reconstruction = Cairo JE 53263, reproduction = MFA 38.957
ID: HUMFA_A6930A_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7000 X
Description: G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, furniture: canopy (reconstruction = Cairo JE 57711, reproduction = MFA 38.873) with bed (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53261, reproduction = MFA 29.1858) and headrest (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53262, reproduction = MFA 29.1859), arm chair (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53263, reproduction = MFA 38.957), jewel box (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53265), view from left
ID: HUMFA_B6698_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7000 X
Description: G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, furniture: arm chair with openwork bound papyrus design (original reconstruction), part of arm: reconstruction = Cairo JE 53263, reproduction = MFA 38.957
ID: MFAB_AAW788
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7000 X
Description: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: modern reproductions of furniture of Queen Hetepheres I from G 7000 X: bed (MFA 29.1858), headrest (MFA 29.1859), canopy (MFA 38.873), arm chair (MFA 38.957), curtain box (MFA 39.746)
ID: HUMFA_B6760_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7000 X
Description: G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, furniture: arm chair with openwork bound papyrus design, restored (original reconstruction): reconstruction = Cairo JE 53263, reproduction = MFA 38.957
ID: HUMFA_A6905_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7000 X
Description: G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, furniture: canopy (reconstruction = Cairo JE 57711, reproduction = MFA 38.873) with bed (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53261, reproduction = MFA 29.1858) and headrest (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53262, reproduction = MFA 29.1859), arm chair (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53263, reproduction = MFA 38.957), jewel box (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53265), view from front
ID: HUMFA_B6759_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7000 X
Description: G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, furniture: arm chair with openwork bound papyrus design, restored (original reconstruction): reconstruction = Cairo JE 53263, reproduction = MFA 38.957
ID: HUMFA_EG021373
Subjects: Drawings: G 7000 X: arm chair with papyrus arms
Description: Drawing: arm chair with papyrus arms from G 7000 X, Hetepheres: MFA 38.957 (reproduction)
ID: HUMFA_A6913_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7000 X
Description: G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, furniture: canopy (reconstruction = Cairo JE 57711, reproduction = MFA 38.873) with bed (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53261, reproduction = MFA 29.1858) and headrest (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53262, reproduction = MFA 29.1859), arm chair (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53263, reproduction = MFA 38.957), jewel box (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53265), view from front
ID: MFAB_AAW1645
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7000 X
Description: G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, furniture: modern reproduction of arm chair with openwork bound papyrus design: MFA 38.957
ID: HUMFA_B6763_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7000 X
Description: G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, furniture: arm chair with openwork bound papyrus design, restored (original reconstruction): reconstruction = Cairo JE 53263, reproduction = MFA 38.957
ID: HUMFA_A6914_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7000 X
Description: G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, furniture: canopy (reconstruction = Cairo JE 57711, reproduction = MFA 38.873) with bed (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53261, reproduction = MFA 29.1858) and headrest (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53262, reproduction = MFA 29.1859), arm chair (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53263, reproduction = MFA 38.957), jewel box (reconstruction = Cairo JE 53265), view from left
