Object register page:
Box full of sealings, sherds, and flints of Khafre.
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- ID
- EMC_TR_12.11.30.4
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- Department
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Classification
- Unclassified
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- Findspot
- From S end of Sphinx. "Further details inside" [i.e., inside the box?].
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- Material
- Various
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- Dimensions
- Various
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- Credit Line
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Period
- Old Kingdom
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- Attested
- Khafre
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- Object owned by
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Remarks
- RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): Khafre; RELATED SITE(S) Sphinx; RELATED MEDIA: EMC_TR_VIII_Sp412-413lr
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- Site Name Sphinx Complex
Ancient People
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Fourth king of Dynasty 4. Son of Khufu. Builder of the Second Pyramid at Giza and probably of the Great Sphinx as well. Known two thousand years later by the Greeks as King Khephren. A number of diorite and greywacke statues and statue fragments depicting the king have been discovered in Khafre's valley temple, including Cairo CG 9-17. The fragmentary head of an alabaster royal statue (MFA 21.351 + MFA 33.1113) is attributed to Khafre.
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- Type Object owned by
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