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Reserve head

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: Eastern Cemetery

Reserve head, of limestone or plaster

Details

  • ID
    GEM_13053
  • Department
    Grand Egyptian Museum
  • Classification
    Sculpture
  • Findspot
    Eastern Cemetery
  • Material
    GEM: plaster; JE: limestone
  • Dimensions
    28.7 x 16.1 x 23.3 cm
  • Credit Line
    Grand Egyptian Museum
  • Journal d'Entree number
    EMC_JE_47838
  • Cairo Special Register number
    EMC_SR_2/15022
  • Period
    Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
  • Excavator
    Tewfik Boulos (Effendi)
  • Notes
    Found by Tewfik Boulos, June 24, 1923. This reserve head has historically been confused with another (GEM_8029 = EMC_JE_37832), found in tomb D 38 by Georg Steindorff in 1905. Thus EMC_JE_47838 (= GEM_13053) is incorrectly attributed to the D 38 in Porter-Moss and Smith, WS, A History of Egyptian Sculpture and Painting in the Old Kingdom.
  • Remarks
    ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): EMC_SR_2/_15022; EMC_JE_47838; RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): Tewfik Boulos; RELATED SITE(S): Eastern Cemetery; RELATED MEDIA: o_neg_nr_0282, o_neg_nr_0304

Full Bibliography

  • Smith, HESPOK, p. 27, pl. 9; Tefnin, R, Art et Magie, pp. 115-116, pl. XX[a]

People 1

Modern People

  • Tewfik Boulos (Effendi)

    • Type Excavator
    • Nationality & Dates
    • Remarks Antiquities inspector. After 1924, Chief Inspector of the Department of Antiquities in Egypt.