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.

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

G 1234
- Site Name Western Cemetery

Manuelian, Peter Der. "On the Early History of Giza: The 'Lost' Wadi Cemetery (Giza Archives Gleanings, III)." <I>Journal of Egyptian Archaeology </I>95 (2009), pp. 105-140.<BR>
- Date: 2009

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.

Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
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