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Headless limestone statue of man

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 1231 (= G 1234)

Headless limestone statue of man; nude male figure standing with left leg advanced; decayed.

Details

  • ID
    HM_6-19762
  • Department
    Hearst Museum, Berkeley
  • Classification
    Sculpture
  • Findspot
    G 1231 (= G 1234) (?)
  • Material
    Limestone
  • Dimensions
    14 cm (5 1/2 in)
  • Credit Line
    Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Hearst Egyptian Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
  • Date of Register Entry
    1903–1904
  • Object owned by
    Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
  • Problems/Questions
    provenance: attribution of 6-19762 to G 1231 (= G 1234) based on reference in Porter-Moss p. 60 (which is based on reference in HESPOK p. 65); Reisner's report to P.A. Hearst for 1903-1904 season attributes this statue to wadi cemetery

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 1234

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Published Documents 1

Full Bibliography

  • Manuelian, Peter Der. "On the Early History of Giza: The 'Lost' Wadi Cemetery (Giza Archives Gleanings, III)." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 95 (2009), pp. 118, 133, note 20, table 1.

    Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L.B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings 3: Memphis (Abû Rawâsh to Dahshûr). Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1931. 2nd edition. 3: Memphis, Part 1 (Abû Rawâsh to Abûsîr), revised and augmented by Jaromír Málek. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1974, p. 60.

    Smith, William Stevenson. A History of Egyptian Sculpture and Painting in the Old Kingdom. London: Oxford University Press, 1946, p. 65.

Institutions 1