Object owner details: MFA accession number: 13.3140

Findspot: Menkaure Quarry Cemetery, Menkaure quarry [MQ 1] (= MQ 137), in sand in offering chamber

[Lime]stone

Description: Hard fine grained yellowish brown [lime] stone statuette, figure squatting in scribe's attitude; hand missing, one corner of base broken off (but found). Illustration: No

Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition

Selected Published References:
Dunham, Dows. The Egyptian Department and its Excavations. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1958, pp. 40-42, fig. 24. Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, pp. 278-279, cat. 72. Fisher, Clarence S. "New Egyptian Galleries." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 12, No. 71 (August 1914), p. 40, unnumbered fig. Freed, Rita E., Lawrence M. Berman, and Denise M. Doxey. Arts of Ancient Egypt. MFA Highlights. Boston: MFA Publications, 2003, p. 88. Jánosi, Peter. "Gab es Kronprinzen in der 4. Dynastie?" Göttinger Miszellen 158 (1997), p. 23, note 54. Russmann, Edna. "A Second Style in Egyptian Art of the Old Kingdom." Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 51 (1995), p. 272, note 32 (incorrectly called 13.1340, rather than 13.3140). Sanborn, Ashton. "New Installation of Egyptian Sculpture." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 23, No. 140 (December 1925), p. 72. Smith, William Stevenson. Ancient Egypt as Represented in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1960 (6th ed.), pp. 46, 50, fig. 26. Smith, William Stevenson. "The Old Kingdom in Egypt," The Cambridge Ancient History, rev. ed. of vols. I & II, Cambridge University Press, 1962, p. 34.