A Wikipedia article on the Menkaure triads, a set of Fourth Dynasty greywacke statue groups showing King Menkaure flanked by the goddess Hathor and a nome-goddess personification, three intact examples held by the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and a fourth by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The article gives each triad's dimensions, dating to about 2551 to 2523 BCE, and identifies the Cairo triad of the nome of Diospolis Parva, accession JE 46499, measuring 95.5 by 48 centimeters.
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A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here for the triad's museum, accession number and dimensions, independently corroborated by a Wikimedia Commons file record photographed at the same museum showing the same three figures. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menkaure_triads
Source Typeencyclopedia
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Boston, Cities This source names Boston directly: "a fourth by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston."
Cairo, Cities This source names Cairo directly: "held by the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and a fourth by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston."
This source names Hathor directly: "King Menkaure flanked by the goddess Hathor and a nome-goddess personification, three intact examples held by the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and a fourth by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston."
This source names Hathor directly: "King Menkaure flanked by the goddess Hathor and a nome-goddess personification, three intact examples held by the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and a fourth by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston."
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- Sources, 9 claims: 5 well-attested, 4 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 6 claims: 2 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.
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