Object owner details: MFA accession number: 30.1456

Findspot: Eastern Cemetery, Mastaba G 7530-7540: G 7530, room a, debris of room

Limestone

Expedition Measurements: Height: 12 cm Width: 13 cm Thickness: 8 cm

Description: Fragment of figure of Hetepheres II, top most piece (head and shoulders), part of small limestone pair statue; traces of black paint on wig; belongs with 27-4-964 and 27-4-965 (pair statue: two figures – Meresankh III and Hetepheres II – standing side by side on one base, left arm of Hetepheres around neck of Meresankh; restored by William Young 1935). Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: ca 1:1

Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition

Selected Published References:
"Actes du colloque sur l'art de l'ancien empire." Cairo (?), 1992. Capart, Jean. L'art Égyptien 2: La Statuaire. Bruxelles [etc.]: Vromant & Co., 1922, p. 22, pl. 259. Capel, Anne K., and Glenn Markoe, eds. Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven: Women in Ancient Egypt. 1st ed. New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with Cincinnati Art Museum: [Lanham, MD], 1996, p. 103, cat. 37. Cott, Perry Blythe. "An Egyptian Sculpture of the Fourth Dynasty." The Worcester Art Museum Annual 1 (1935-1936), p. 18, fig. 3. Dunham, Dows. "A Statuette of Two Egyptian Queens." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 34, No. 201 (1936), pp. 3-5. Dunham, Dows. The Egyptian Department and its Excavations. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1958, pp. 41, 43, fig. 25. Dunham, Dows, and William Kelly Simpson. The Mastaba of Queen Mersyankh III (G 7530-7540). Giza Mastabas 1. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1974, pp. 8, 23, pl. 17a-b. Fay, Biri. "Royal Women as Represented in Sculpture during the Old Kingdom. Part II: Uninscribed Sculptures." In Christiane Ziegler, ed. L'art de l'ancien empire égyptien. Paris: Musée du Louvre, 1999, pp. 106, 135, fig. 24. Fay, Biri. "Royal Women as Represented in Sculpture dunring the Old Kingdom." In Nicolas Grimal, ed. Les Critères de Datation Stylistiques à l'Ancien Empire. Cairo: Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1998, pp. 162, 176, fig. 7. Freed, Rita E. "Rethiking the Rules for Old Kingdom Sculpture. Observations on Poses and Attributes of Limestone Statuary from Giza." In Miroslav Bárta, ed. The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology. Proceedings of the Conference held in Prague, May 31-June 4, 2004. Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2006, p. 151. Hennessy, Dianne. Studies in Ancient Egypt. South Melbourne: Nelson, 1992. Markowitz, Yvonne J., Joyce L. Haynes, and Rita E. Freed. Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids: Highlights from the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expedition. Boston: MFA Publications, 2002, p. 44, fig. 32. Rössler-Köhler, Ursula. "Die Rundplastische Gruppe der Frau Pepi Und Des Mannes Ra-Schepses. (Bemerkungen Zur Ikonographie Von Familiendarstellungen Des Alten Reiches)." Mitteilungen des Deutschen Instituts für ägyptische Altertumskunde in Kairo 45 (1989), p. 270, pl. 34c. Scharff, Alexander. "On the Statuary of the Old Kingdom." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 26 (1941), p. 48. 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, p. 108, fig. 1. Simpson, William Kelly. The Mastabas of Kawab, Khafkhufu I and II. Giza Mastabas 3. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1978, p. 4, fig. 72. Smith, William Stevenson. Ancient Egypt as Represented in the Museum of Fine Arts. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1942, p. 45. Smith, William Stevenson. Ancient Egypt as Represented in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1960 (6th ed.), p. 51. Wenig, Steffen. Die Frau Im Alten Ägyten: Das Bild Der Frau. Leipzig: Edition Leipzig, 1967. pl. 8.

Remarks: 27-4-963 + 27-4-964 + 27-4-965 = MFA 30.1456