This is a reproduction of an object excavated by the Harvard University–Boston museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. (Accession Date: January 1, 1929)

Findspot: Eastern Cemetery, G 7000 X (original). Reproduction commissioned for the MFA and made by Boston cabinetmaker Joseph Gerte, 1929.

Dimensions/Weight: Height x width x length: 43.5 x 97.5 x 177 cm (17 1/8 x 38 3/8 x 69 11/16 in.)

Classification: Reproductions

Description: Copy of bed from tomb of Hetepheres I; frame and four legs of modern wood gilded, with addition of inner frames, two cross bars, and webbing; made by W. A. Stewart under supervision of George Andrew Reisner; remade by Joseph Gerte, Boston.

Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition

Selected Published References:
Bothmer, Bernard V. Egypt 1950: My First Visit. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2003, p. 67, fig. 44 (incorrectly labeled 28.1858). Dunham, Dows. The Egyptian Department and its Excavations. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1958, pp. 56, 58, 62, Smith, William Stevenson. A History of Egyptian Sculpture and Painting in the Old Kingdom. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press on behalf of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1946, pp. 56, 58, 62, fig. 39 Dunham, Dows. Recollections of an Egyptologist. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1972, pp. 32-34. Freed, Rita E., Lawrence M. Berman, and Denise M. Doxey. Arts of Ancient Egypt. MFA Highlights. Boston: MFA Publications, 2003, pp. 70-71. 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, pp. 48-51, cat. 1e. Münch, Hans-Hubertus, "Categorizing Archaeological Finds: the Funerary Material of Queen Hetepheres I at Giza." Antiquity 74, No 286 (2000), p. 905. No author. The Tomb of Queen Hetep-heres. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, no date, p. 10. Reisner, George A. "Hetep-Heres, Mother of Cheops." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 25, supplement (May 1927), pp. 19-20. Reisner, George A. "The Household Furniture of Queen Hetep-heres I." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 27, No. 164 (December 1929), p. 88, figs. 8-9. Reisner, George A. "The Bed Canopy of the Mother of Cheops." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 30, no. 180 (August 1932), p. 55, unnumbered fig. Smith, William Stevenson. Ancient Egypt as Represented in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1960 (6th ed.), pp. 68-69, fig. 40.

Remarks: Bed: original reconstruction in collection of Egyptian Museum, Cairo (JE 53261); copy in collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA 29.1858).