[[missing key: Photos.met.details-breadcrumb]]
Result 210 of 220
Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple

Photo ID number: B574_NS
Photo Subjects
Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Description
Greywacke pair statue (= published no. 17) from Menkaure valley temple (heads, quarter view proper right): 10-1-16 (= MFA 11.1738)
Photo date: April 1910
Image published: Reisner, George A. "The Harvard-University-Museum of Fine Arts Egyptian Expedition." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 9, No. 50 (April 1911), p. 20, unnumbered fig.

Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, pl. 59.

Unsigned. "The Dawn of Civilization in Egypt: Tracing the Culture of the Egyptians nearly to the Stone Age--Mummies Not of Ancient Origin--The Secret of the Sphinx Revealed." Science Conspectus 2, No. 3 (February 1912), p. 76, unnumbered fig.
Problems/Questions: VERIFIED: orientation corrected and identification verified; registration number based on publication p. 37 (no registration records from this date); MFA accession number verified; Reisner reference verified; BMFA reference verified; Science Conspectus reference verified
MET 05 : Non organic / Rock: Greywacke
MET 02 : Sculpture in the round: Statue
MET 08 : Attitude / Attitude of arms/hands: Arms stretched down
MET 08 : Human / Man: King
MET 08 : Human / Woman: Queen
MET 08 : Attitude / Attitude of body: Standing
MET 08 : Human / Man: Unspecified man
MET 08 : Human / Woman: Unspecified woman
MET 06 : Stone-technique: Carved