Digital Giza | Fragment of limestone relief from queen's pyramid chapel

Object register page:

One fragment of limestone wall relief (cf. 24-11-242 and 24-11-349) (Dynasty 4). Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:1

ID

HUMFA_24-11-286l
Department

Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification

Architectural elements-Relief
Findspot

[Street G 7000], N of G 7131, [originally from chapel of G I-b]
Material

Limestone
Dimensions

Height: 4.9 cm Length: 7.4 cm Thickness: 1.4 cm
Credit Line

Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Object Ownership Information

MFA accession number: 27.1126.11
Period

Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
Date of Register Entry

11/08/1924
Remarks

This fragment part of relief from queen's pyramid (subsidiary pyramid) G I-b chapel. MFA 27.1126 (.1–.12): Overall depicts boat manned by several rowers, two men standing at stern operating steering oars, and one man standing at prow directing rowers; composed of: .1 = 24-11-242c, .2 = 24-11-242d, .3 = 24-11-242g, .4 = 24-11-242h, .5 = 24-11-242l, .6 = 24-11-242n9, .7 = 24-11-349, .8 = 24-11-286f, .9 = 24-11-286g, .10 = 24-11-286i, .11 = 24-11-286l, .12 = 24-11-242n7. Possibly related fragments 24-12-14 = MFA 24.2686 and 24-11-889 = MFA 24.2658 (or these fragments may be from similar relief scene from Khufu pyramid temple). Additional fragments (not listed or illustrated in original object register entry) now identified as 24-11-286(aa, o-y).
Problems/Questions

MFA accession number verified

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. 2.

Simpson, William Kelly. The Mastabas of Kawab, Khafkhufu I and II. Giza Mastabas 3. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1978, p. 32.

Fragment of limestone relief from queen's pyramid chapel