Digital Giza | Limestone mold with design of bird

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7600 X, G 7652, G 7940

One of two symmetrical limestone molds of crested bird (Old Kingdom); fits with EMC_JE_57016. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:1

ID

EMC_JE_57015
Department

Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Classification

Tools & equipment-Molds
Findspot

Pit G 7940 B, debris of pit itself
Material

Limestone
Dimensions

Width: 9.5 cm Length: 13 cm Thickness: a) 3.3 cm; b) 3.7 cm
Credit Line

Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number

HUMFA_30-12-82
Cairo Special Register number

EMC_SR_1/13543
Cairo Special Register number

EMC_SR_7/22525
Object Ownership Information

In the collection of: Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Date of Register Entry

12/15/1930
Object owned by

Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Notes

Two fitting molds originally registered as HUMFA_30-12-82; now in collection of Egyptian Museum, Cairo (EMC_JE_57015 and EMC_JE_57016). A large portion of Special Register section 7 (volumes 13-16) was originally misnumbered, with the object numbers following in sequence from section 1 volume 4; these numbers have thus been given EMC_SR_1 prefixes, despite being recorded in section 7. Hence this object is EMC_SR_1/13453. The SR numbering was then ammended to the proper section 7 sequence, and it was given number EMC_SR_7/22525.

Limestone mold with design of bird