Photo ID number: A522_NS
 (Other photo number: A5961_NS)

Photo Subjects
Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2009

Description
Painted limestone standing pair statue of Mesi and his wife Sesesekh from G 2009, serdab (front): Egyptian Museum, Cairo JE 38670. [Image also known as: A5961_NS]

Photo date: 1906

Image published: Henry G. Fischer, "An Elusive Shape within the Fisted hands of Egyptian Statues," Metropolitan Museum Journal 10 (1975), p. 13, fig. 5 = Ancient Egypt in the Metropolitan Museum Journal (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976), p. 147, fig. 5.

Smith, William Stevenson. A History of Egyptian Sculpture and Painting in the Old Kingdom. London: Oxford University Press, 1946, pl. 24b.

Literature reference: see color photograph in Robert S. Bianchi, Splendors of Ancient Egypt from the Egyptian Museum Cairo and presented by the Florida International Museum, St. Peterburg (London, 1996), p. 58

Problems/Questions: VERIFIED: description corrected based on A5961; orientation and identification verified; statue not registered (no registration records for 1903-1904-1905-1906); HESPOK reference verified