This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 1910: Excavated by the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; 1911: assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt.

Findspot: , Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / court, N of causeway [NW quarter of court])

Dimensions/Weight: Overall: 80 x 59.7 x 33 cm, 204.1 kg (31 1/2 x 23 1/2 x 13 in., 450 lb.)

Classification: Sculpture

Description: Fragment of greywacke triad of Menkaure, goddess Hathor, and nome god; female figure (Hathor) to right of central figure (Menkaure), male figure (nome god) to left, both male figures wear pleated kilts; heads and feet missing. [1910 no. 5 = published no. 13 = 10-1-17]

Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition

Selected Published References:
Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 274, fig. 117. Fay, Biri. "Royal Women as Represented in Sculpture during the Old Kingdom." In Nicolas Grimal, ed. Les Critères de Datation Stylistiques à l'Ancien Empire. Cairo: Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1998, pp. 164-165. Friedman, Florence Dunn. "The Menkaure Dyad(s)." In Stephen E. Thompson and Peter Der Manuelian, eds. Egypt and Beyond: Essays Presented to Leonard H. Lesko upon his Retirement from the Wilbour Chair of Egyptology at Brown University June 2005. Providence: Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies, 2008, pp. 131, 133, 143, fig. 24. Manuelian, Peter Der. "Excavating the Old Kingdom. The Giza Necropolis and Other Mastaba Fields." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 145. Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, pp. 37, 110. Rzepka, Slawomir. "Some Remarks on Two Mycerinus Group Statues." Göttinger Miszellen 166 (1998), pp. 77-83, 85, pl. 1, fig. 1. Simpson, William Kelly. "Grammar of Egyptian Statuary: The Old Kingdom." In Bettina Schmitz, ed. Festschrift Arne Eggebrecht zum 65. Geburtstag am 12. März 2000. Hildesheimer Ägyptologische Beiträge 48. Hildesheim: Gerstenberg Verlag, 2002, pp. 112-113. Wood, Wendy. "A Reconstruction of the Triads of King Mycerinus." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 60 (1974), pp. 82, 85-90, pl. XXV.1.

Remarks: Registration number obtained from publication; no registration records available for 1910.