Seven copper broad chisels with narrow cutting edge. Illustration: Yes
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- ID
- HUMFA_12-12-137
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- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Classification
- Tools & equipment-Woodworking and stoneworking
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- Findspot
- Pit G 2381 Z, (11 – 17)
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- Material
- Copper
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- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston accession number
- MFAB_13.3428
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- Cairo Temporary Register number
- EMC_TR_20.9.16.3
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- Cairo Special Register number
- EMC_SR_3/2943
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- Object Ownership Information
- MFAB_13.3428; EMC_TR_20.9.16.3
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- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6, reign of Pepy II
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- Date of Register Entry
- 12/12/1912
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- Notes
- One of seven chisels accessioned as MFA 13.3428 (A838 #15). Three (#11, 12, 13) in collection of Egyptian Museum, Cairo, EMC_TR_20.9.16.3. A large number of objects from G 2370, G 2381, and G 2385 sent to Cairo Museum and registered together with temporary number EMC_TR_20.9.16.3. Total number sent to Cairo unknown; some (not necessarily all) of the objects included in EMC_TR_20.9.16.3 have excavator's numbers: G 2381 Z 5 (= HUMFA_12-12-135, one of five); 6 (= HUMFA_12-12-136); 11, 12, 13 (= HUMFA_12-12-137, three of seven); 19, 20, 21, 23, 25, 26, 27 (= HUMFA_12-12-138, seven of ten); 31, 32 (= HUMFA_12-12-139, two of five); 33, 34, 38, 39, 40, 44 (= HUMFA_12-12-140, six of twelve); 57 (= HUMFA_12-12-142, one of four); 60, 61, 64 (= HUMFA_12-12-148, three of five); 65 (= HUMFA_12-12-149); 66 (= HUMFA_12-12-150); 69 (= HUMFA_12-12-153); 70 (= HUMFA_12-12-155); 72, 73, 74, 76 (= HUMFA_12-12-156, four of five); 77 (= HUMFA_12-12-157). G 2381 X 1, 2, 3, 4 (= HUMFA_12-12-177); 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (= HUMFA_12-12-178); 13, 14 (= HUMFA_12-12-179, two of five); 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 (= HUMFA_12-12-180, six of seven); 22 (= HUMFA_12-12-181, one of two); 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 (= HUMFA_12-12-182); 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 (= HUMFA_12-12-183); 38, 39 (= HUMFA_12-12-184, two of three). Also HUMFA_12-12-87, HUMFA_12-12-88, HUMFA_12-12-96, HUMFA_12-12-98. Some (or possibly all? Total numbers unclear) of these are EMC_SR_3/2943.
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- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
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Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 282, cat. 74.
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, p. 105, cat. 41c (incorrectly attributed to G 2381 A).
Reisner, George A., and Clarence S. Fisher. "Preliminary Report on the Work of the Harvard-Boston Expedition in 1911-13." Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte 13 (1914), pl. 11b.