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Object register entry:
Field number: 14-3-32
Field number: 14-3-32
Entry date(s): 03/29/1914
Object owner details: MFA accession number: 21.2602
Female head from limestone standing pair statue of Kap and Hy
Findspot: Western Cemetery, Street between mastabas G 4620 and G 4520, debris thrown out from G 4620, [originally from G 4522]
Limestone
Expedition Measurements: Height: about 7.5 cm
Width: ca 7.8 cm
Thickness: ca 7.2 cm
Description: Head of female figure from nummulitic limestone pair statuette [of Kap and his wife Hy], fits 14-3-16.
Illustration: No
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Selected Published References:
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).
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
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