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Object register entry:
Field number: 12-12-176
Field number: 12-12-176
Entry date(s): 12/15/1912 - 12/18/1912
Object owner details: MFA accession numbers: 47.2032–47.2042, 47.2047, 47.2116–47.2139
Fragments of alabaster royal statues and other miscellaneous stone objects
Findspot: Western Cemetery, Surface debris in front of pit G 2370 B and about G 2382 A, and in G 2382 A
Alabaster, flint, faience, limestone, slate
Description: Fragments of various alabaster royal statuettes; three pieces have portions of [GLYPHS], three separate cartouches of [GLYPHS] Khafre, [at least two fragments forming part of cartouche belong with fragments from 14-12-49a] // two fragments of diorite // and other odds [and ends (including: four flints, one faience disc bead, one pierced stone disk, one broken inscribed limestone cylinder, one battered limestone servant statue accessory, one unidentified limestone object, one alabaster model jar, one slate vessel fragment, several alabaster vessel fragments, etc)] (see A860).
Illustration: No
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Selected Published References:
Smith, William Stevenson. "Fragments of a Statuette of Chephren." Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 54 (1957), pp. 186, 189, fig. 3.
Smith, William Stevenson. "Fragments of a Statuette of Chephren." Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 54 (1957), pp. 186, 189, fig. 3.
Remarks: Multiple alabaster statue fragments MFA owned (accessioned).
12-12-176.1 = MFA 47.2116: two fragments forming part of cartouche, belongs with 14-12-49.24 + 14-12-49.26 + 14-12-49.34 + 14-12-49.38 + 14-12-49.44 + 14-12-49.45 + 14-12-49.46, all from same statue;
12-12-176.2 = MFA 47.2117: one fragment, inscribed;
12-12-176.3 = MFA 47.2118: two fitting fragments, portion of arm or leg;
12-12-176.4 = MFA 47.2119: two fitting fragments, portion of chest with lappet;
12-12-176.5 = MFA 47.2120: one fragment, inscribed;
12-12-176.6 = MFA 47.2121: one fragment, inscribed;
12-12-176.7 = MFA 47.2122: two fitting fragments, joins 12-12-176.12;
12-12-176.9 = MFA 47.2123: one fragment, inscribed;
12-12-176.10 = MFA 47.2124: one fragment inscribed;
12-12-176.11 = MFA 47.2125: one fragment, portion of lappet;
12-12-176.12 = MFA 47.2126: one fragment, joins 12-12-176.7;
12-12-176.13 = MFA 47.2127: one fragment;
12-12-176.14 = MFA 47.2128: one fragment, inscribed;
12-12-176.15 = MFA 47.2129: one fragment, ridged pattern;
12-12-176.17 = MFA 47.2130: one fragment;
12-12-176.18 = MFA 47.2131: one fragment;
12-12-176.20 = MFA 47.2132: one fragment;
12-12-176.25 = MFA 47.2133: two fitting fragments;
12-12-176.29 = MFA 47.2134: one fragment, ridged pattern;
12-12-176.31 = MFA 47.2135: one fragment;
12-12-176.32 = MFA 47.2136: one fragment;
12-12-176.35 = MFA 47.2137: one fragment;
12-12-176.37 = MFA 47.2138: one fragment;
12-12-176.39 = MFA 47.2139: one fragment.
Miscellaneous stone objects accessioned as MFA 47.2032 (flint), MFA 47.2033 (flint), MFA 47.2034 (flint), MFA 47.2035 (slate vessel fragment), MFA 47.2036 (pierced stone disk), MFA 47.2037 (unidentified limestone object), MFA 47.2038 (faience disc bead), MFA 47.2039 (alabaster vessel fragment), MFA 47.2040 (alabaster model jar), MFA 47.2041 (inscribed limestone cylinder), MFA 47.2042 (alabaster vessel fragment), MFA 47.2047 (limestone servant statue accessory).