id:			126198
accession number:	1948.420
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.420
updated:		2025-07-11 17:03:15.804000

Striding Statue of Minnefer, c. 2377–2311 BCE. Egypt, Giza, Old Kingdom (2647–2124 BCE), Dynasty 5. Painted limestone; overall: 53.8 x 14.4 x 23.4 cm (21 3/16 x 5 11/16 x 9 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1948.420

title:				Striding Statue of Minnefer
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creation date:			c. 2377–2311 BCE
creation date earliest:		-2377
creation date latest:		-2311
current location:		107 Egyptian
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Egypt, Giza, Old Kingdom (2647–2124 BCE), Dynasty 5
technique:	painted limestone
department:	Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
collection:	Egypt - Old Kingdom
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 53.8 x 14.4 x 23.4 cm (21 3/16 x 5 11/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
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PROVENANCE

	Giza, western cemetery, tomb G 2427, excavations of the Boston Museum-Harvard University Expedition, 1936, register no. 36-5-40. Formerly in the Egyptian collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 37.637
	date: 1936-1948
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Reisner, George A. "Note on objects assigned to the museum by the Egyptian government." <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts</em> 36, no. 214 (1938): 26-32.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 26; Reproduced: p. 27, fig. 2
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	Smith, William Stevenson, and<em> </em>Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.<em> A History of Egyptian Sculpture and Painting in the Old Kingdom.</em> London: Pub. on behalf of the Museum of fine arts, Boston, U.S.A., by the Oxford University Press, G. Cumberlege (1946): 75 (2427, 4)
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 75
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	Comstock, Helen. "The Connoisseur in America: An Egyptian Statuette of the Old Kingdom." <em>The Connoisseur </em>124 (December 1949): p. 114-120, reproduced on p. 120.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 114-120; Reproduced: p. 120.
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	Wunderlich, Silvia. "An Old Kingdom Egyptian Statuette." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>36, no. 4 (April 1949): 43-44.
	page number: 	Reproduced: front cover; Mentioned: p. 43
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141544

	Wunderlich, Silvia. "Diorite Torso of a General." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>36, no. 6 (June 1949): 99-101.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 100
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141559

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 3
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n17

	Cleveland Museum of Art, and Martha L. Carter. <em>Egyptian Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1963.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 4; Mentioned: p. 5
	url:		https://archive.org/details/EgyptianArt_80670/page/n7

	Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač.<em> Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 126-127; Mentioned: p. 126-127
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	Gresser, Noah. "The Effects of the Late Egyptian Canon on Greek Statues." <em>CORVUS: The Journal of the Carleton University Classics Society</em>,XIII. Carleton University (2022-2023): 47-74.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 49-53; Reproduced: p. 63, fig. 4.
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