Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7110-7120, street G 7000, street G 7300, G 7310-7320, G I-b, street G 7400, avenue G 1, Khufu pyramid temple
Fragments of limestone [relief] (Dynasty 4), [from various scenes, some] bearing part of name of Khufu, figures and hieroglyphs all in relief, originally colored (many fragments still bear traces of color): a) two fitting fragments, [part of inscription]. Illustration: Yes with hieroglyphs. Illustration scale: 1:2
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- ID
- HUMFA_24-11-242a
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- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Classification
- Architectural elements-Relief
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- Findspot
- [Street G 7000], debris E of subsidiary pyramid G I-b, [originally from chapel of G I-b]
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- Material
- Limestone
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- Dimensions
- Height: 7.7 cm Width: 10.2 cm Thickness: 1.05 cm
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- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Object Ownership Information
- MFA accession number: 27.2053
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- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
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- Date of Register Entry
- 11/07/1924
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- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
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- Site Name Khufu Pyramid Complex
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- Site Name Khufu Pyramid Complex
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- Site Name Eastern Cemetery
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Reisner, George A., and William Stevenson Smith. The Tomb of Hetep-Heres the Mother of Cheops: a Study of Egyptian Civilization in the Old Kingdom. A History of the Giza Necropolis 2. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1955, p. 4, fig. 4.
Smith, William Stevenson. A History of Egyptian Sculpture and Painting in the Old Kingdom. London: Oxford University Press, 1946, pl. 38.