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Object register entry:
Field number: 14-3-16
Field number: 14-3-16
Entry date(s): 03/22/1914
Object owner details: MFA accession number: 21.2602
Headless limestone standing pair statue of Kap and Hy
Findspot: Western Cemetery, Street N of mastaba G 4620, 58 cm N of NW corner of G 4620, [originally from G 4522]
Limestone
Expedition Measurements: Height: 35.6 cm
Description: Headless nummulitic limestone pair statue [of Kap and his wife Hy], heads 14-3-23 and 14-3-32 fit; woman on left of man with right arm around his shoulder, man's left foot advanced, man's short wig covers ears, woman's long wig covers ears.
Illustration: Yes with hieroglyphs
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Selected Published References:
Fischer, Henry G. "Redundant Determinatives in the Old Kingdom." Metropolitan Museum Journal 8 (1973), p. 13, n. 12, fig. 11. García, Juan Carlos Moreno. "A New Old Kingdom Inscription from Giza (CGC 57163), and the Problem of sn-Dt in Pharaonic Third Millennium Society." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 93 (2007), p. 132. Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L.B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings 3: Memphis (Abû Rawâsh to Dahshûr). Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1931. 2nd edition. 3: Memphis, Part 1 (Abû Rawâsh to Abûsîr), revised and augmented by Jaromír Málek. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1974, p. 130 (attributed to G 4522). Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 507. Smith, William Stevenson. A History of Egyptian Sculpture and Painting in the Old Kingdom. London: Oxford University Press, 1946, p. 72 (attributed to G 4522).
Fischer, Henry G. "Redundant Determinatives in the Old Kingdom." Metropolitan Museum Journal 8 (1973), p. 13, n. 12, fig. 11. García, Juan Carlos Moreno. "A New Old Kingdom Inscription from Giza (CGC 57163), and the Problem of sn-Dt in Pharaonic Third Millennium Society." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 93 (2007), p. 132. Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L.B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings 3: Memphis (Abû Rawâsh to Dahshûr). Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1931. 2nd edition. 3: Memphis, Part 1 (Abû Rawâsh to Abûsîr), revised and augmented by Jaromír Málek. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1974, p. 130 (attributed to G 4522). Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 507. Smith, William Stevenson. A History of Egyptian Sculpture and Painting in the Old Kingdom. London: Oxford University Press, 1946, p. 72 (attributed to G 4522).
Remarks: 14-3-16 (statue) + 14-3-23 (male head) + 14-3-32 (female head) = MFA 21.2602
Problems/Questions:
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