Lower part of limestone offering case for goose (cf. 12-12-49, but shallow) [upper part is MMA_37.6.2b]; yellow wash inside and out; four pieces. Illustration: No
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- ID
- MMA_37.6.2a
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- Department
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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- Classification
- Tomb equipment-Models
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- Findspot
- Pit G 2385 A (assumed to be associated with mastaba G 2374), debris in shaft
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- Material
- Limestone
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- Dimensions
- Width: 23.5 cm Length: 34.5 cm
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- Credit Line
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1937
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- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
- HUMFA_12-12-56
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- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston accession number
- MFAB_13.3486
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- Object Ownership Information
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, MMA_37.6.2a; deaccessioned MFAB_13.3486
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- Period
- Old Kingdom, First half of Dynasty 6
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- Date of Register Entry
- 12/10/1912
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- Object owned by
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- Notes
- Excavated by the Harvard-Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expediton in Giza, 1912. Received from the Egyptian Government by the MFA in the allotment of finds (MFAB_13.3486). Deaccessioned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, by exchange in 1937.
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- Remarks
- G 2385 A first excavated in 1912 and reexcavated in 1935. MMA_37.6.2a + MMA_37.6.2b: HUMFA_12-12-56 = MFAB_13.3486 (deaccessioned) + HUMFA_12-12-46 = MFAB_13.3477 (deaccessioned)
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- Problems/Questions
- MFA and MMA accession numbers verified
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- Type Object owned by
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