Result 4 of 9
Photo ID number: C552_NS
Photo Subjects
Menkaure Pyramid Complex: Site: Giza; View: Menkaure valley temple
Menkaure Pyramid Complex: Site: Giza; View: Menkaure valley temple
Description
Menkaure valley temple, offering room (= room I = published plan room 2), unfinished statuettes (1908) nos. 15, 16, 17, 22 (= published nos. 27 = 08-7-24 = MFA 11.729, 29, 32 = 08-7-25 = MFA 11.733a-c, 39) in situ, looking SW
Menkaure valley temple, offering room (= room I = published plan room 2), unfinished statuettes (1908) nos. 15, 16, 17, 22 (= published nos. 27 = 08-7-24 = MFA 11.729, 29, 32 = 08-7-25 = MFA 11.733a-c, 39) in situ, looking SW
Photographer: Said Ahmed Said [Diraz] (Reis)
Photo date: 1908
Image published: Manuelian, Peter Der. "Excavating the Old Kingdom. The Giza Necropolis and Other Mastaba Fields." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 145, fig. 86.
Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, pl. 61a.
Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, pl. 61a.
Publications (PDFs) in Giza Archives Library:
Manuelian, Peter Der. "Excavating the Old Kingdom. The Giza Necropolis and Other Mastaba Fields." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, pp. 138-153.
Manuelian, Peter Der. "Excavating the Old Kingdom. The Giza Necropolis and Other Mastaba Fields." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, pp. 138-153.
Problems/Questions:
VERIFIED: portico (= room K = published plan room 1) corrected to read offering room (= room I = published plan room 2) based on publication pp. 36, 112; identifications based on published caption; registration numbers based on publication p. 112 (no registration records from this date); MFA accession numbers verified; Reisner reference verified
