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Head of alabaster statue of Menkaure

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple

Head of alabaster statue of Menkaure

Details

  • ID
    EMC_JE_40705
  • Department
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Classification
    Sculpture
  • Findspot
    Menkaure Valley Temple
  • Material
    Alabaster
  • Dimensions
    34 cm
  • Credit Line
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
    HUMFA_08-7-18
  • Mycerinus publication number
    22
  • Cairo Special Register number
    EMC_SR_2/15073
  • Object Ownership Information
    Port Said National Museum
  • Period
    Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Menkaure
  • Owner
    Menkaure
  • Excavator
    George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
  • Notes
    From excavations of George Reisner, 1908. Incorrectly identified in Porter-Moss as EMC_JE_40704. Now in Port Said National Museum.
  • Remarks
    RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): George Reisner; Menkaure; RELATED SITE(S): Menkaure Valley Temple; RELATED MEDIA: EMC_JE_VIII_sp065LR; MFAB_A251_NS; MFAB_A252_NS; MFAB_C550_NS; MFAB_A280_NS; MFAB_A281_NS; MFAB_A282_NS; MFAB_A283_NS; MFAB_A284_NS; MFAB_AAW1029_NS; MFAB_B389_NS; MFAB_B390_NS; MFAB_B391_NS; MFAB_B392_NS; MFAB_B393_NS; MFAB_B394_NS; MFAB_B395_NS; MFAB_B396_NS; MFAB_B397_NS; MFAB_B398_NS; MFAB_B399_NS; MFAB_B400_NS; MFAB_B401_NS; MFAB_B402_NS; MFAB_B403_NS; MFAB_B404_NS; MFAB_B405_NS; MFAB_B406_NS; MFAB_B407_NS; MFAB_B408_NS; MFAB_B409_NS; MFAB_B410_NS; MFAB_B411_NS; MFAB_B412_NS; MFAB_B413_NS; MFAB_B414_NS; MFAB_B415_NS; MFAB_B415P_NS; MFAB_B416_NS; MFAB_C13183_NS; MFAB_C4545_NS; MFAB_C4563_NS; PDM_1999.015.09; PDM_1999.015.11; ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): HUMFA_08-7-18; Mycerinus publication number 22

Tombs and Monuments 1

Published Documents 1

Full Bibliography

  • Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1931.

    Friedman, Florence Dunn. "The Names of Menkaure." In Kamil O. Kuraszkiewicz, Edyta Kopp, and Daniel Takács, eds. 'The Perfection that Endures... ': Studies on Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology. Warsaw: Department of Egyptology - Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw, 2018, p. 122; plate XXV.2.

People 2

Ancient People

  • Menkaure

    • Type Owner
    • Remarks Fifth king of Dynasty 4. Son of Khafre. Husband of Khamerernebti II. Builder of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Known two thousand years later by the Greeks as King Mycerinus.

Modern People

  • George Andrew Reisner

    • Type Excavator
    • Nationality & Dates American, 1867–1942
    • Remarks Egyptologist, archaeologist; Referred to as "the doctor" and "mudir" (Arabic for "director") in the excavation records. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.