Egypt
- Tomb Of Meresankh Iii On Osirisnet
Osirisnet From Thierry Benderitte: In the introduction (dated 1974), of the publication which William Kelly Simpson, together with Dows Dunham, dedicated to the monument, he made the following comment about the mastaba of queen Meresankh III, granddaughter...
- Giza Archives Project - Finding The Pharaohs
http://www.gizapyramids.org/pdf%20library/tufts_magazine_spr_2007.pdf Tufts Magazine, Spring 2007 (a publication of Tufts University), has featured the Giza Archives Project, in a paper entitled Finding the Pharaohs, by Helen Ragovin. This is an interesting...
- Digitizing Giza
http://www.gizapyramids.org/pdf%20library/tufts_journal_4_2007-giza.pdf"Step into the subterranean tomb of Meresankh III, a queen of Egypt, wife to her uncle, the pharaoh Khafre. Turn to the right and examine the hieroglyphs carved into the limestone...
- The Great Pyramid Shafts
The shafts that extend from the northern and southern walls of the Queens chamber have been found to have doors with copper bolts inside them. Perhaps behind one of these doors we will find a sarcophagus containing the missing mummy of Khufu's mother...
- Functionality Of Reserve Heads
These old kingdom reserve heads as they are known appear to be funerary in nature. Nearly all are carved of white limestone but at least one is made from Nile mud. Many appear to be actual portraits while some are too idealized to be portraits of the...
Egypt
Photo for Today - Armchair of Hetepheres I
With my thanks to Jon Bodsworth
www.egyptarchive.co.uk
www.egyptarchive.co.uk
Chair from the tomb of Hetepheres I (reconstruction)
Giza
4th Dynasty
Wood and gold leaf
Hetepheres was probably the wife of the first 4th Dynasty pharaoh Snefru, and
was the mother of the builder of the Great Pyramid at Giza, Khufu.
Originally buried at Dashur, her tomb was violated in antiquity and Khufu
had the remaining tomb contents moved to a shaft tomb near his pyramid (G7000X),
although the alabaster sarcophagus was empty when found by George Reisner in 1925.
This is the better preserved of two armchairs. The wooden panels were added
to the chair following its discovery for display purposes.
If you are interested in reading about the tomb and its discovery here are
two articles that may be of interest.
There is a report by Reisner himself in the Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts,
available in PDF format from the Giza Archives Project website
The Tomb of Queen Hetep-Heres (1927)
It is 36 pages long and has a lot of photographs of the site.
A really good read.
And there is a short article that asks what happened to the body
of Hetepheres by Alan Winston available online:
The Mysteries of Queen Hetepheres' Tomb, which is accompanied
by some excellent black and white photographs from the time of the discovery.
Giza
4th Dynasty
Wood and gold leaf
Hetepheres was probably the wife of the first 4th Dynasty pharaoh Snefru, and
was the mother of the builder of the Great Pyramid at Giza, Khufu.
Originally buried at Dashur, her tomb was violated in antiquity and Khufu
had the remaining tomb contents moved to a shaft tomb near his pyramid (G7000X),
although the alabaster sarcophagus was empty when found by George Reisner in 1925.
This is the better preserved of two armchairs. The wooden panels were added
to the chair following its discovery for display purposes.
If you are interested in reading about the tomb and its discovery here are
two articles that may be of interest.
There is a report by Reisner himself in the Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts,
available in PDF format from the Giza Archives Project website
The Tomb of Queen Hetep-Heres (1927)
It is 36 pages long and has a lot of photographs of the site.
A really good read.
And there is a short article that asks what happened to the body
of Hetepheres by Alan Winston available online:
The Mysteries of Queen Hetepheres' Tomb, which is accompanied
by some excellent black and white photographs from the time of the discovery.
- Tomb Of Meresankh Iii On Osirisnet
Osirisnet From Thierry Benderitte: In the introduction (dated 1974), of the publication which William Kelly Simpson, together with Dows Dunham, dedicated to the monument, he made the following comment about the mastaba of queen Meresankh III, granddaughter...
- Giza Archives Project - Finding The Pharaohs
http://www.gizapyramids.org/pdf%20library/tufts_magazine_spr_2007.pdf Tufts Magazine, Spring 2007 (a publication of Tufts University), has featured the Giza Archives Project, in a paper entitled Finding the Pharaohs, by Helen Ragovin. This is an interesting...
- Digitizing Giza
http://www.gizapyramids.org/pdf%20library/tufts_journal_4_2007-giza.pdf"Step into the subterranean tomb of Meresankh III, a queen of Egypt, wife to her uncle, the pharaoh Khafre. Turn to the right and examine the hieroglyphs carved into the limestone...
- The Great Pyramid Shafts
The shafts that extend from the northern and southern walls of the Queens chamber have been found to have doors with copper bolts inside them. Perhaps behind one of these doors we will find a sarcophagus containing the missing mummy of Khufu's mother...
- Functionality Of Reserve Heads
These old kingdom reserve heads as they are known appear to be funerary in nature. Nearly all are carved of white limestone but at least one is made from Nile mud. Many appear to be actual portraits while some are too idealized to be portraits of the...