Digital Giza | Copper tool: saw blade

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 1457

[One of] four copper tools; heavily oxidized: d) saw (in three pieces) and [one] fragment (perhaps fitting saw). Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:1

ID

GEM_8083
Department

Grand Egyptian Museum
Classification

Tools & equipment-Miscellaneous
Findspot

Pit G 1457 A, debris of burial chamber
Material

Copper
Dimensions

Width: 2 cm Length: 12.2+ cm; with fitting fragment: 14.4 cm Thickness: .4 cm
Credit Line

Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Journal d'Entree number

EMC_JE_67596
Cairo Special Register number

EMC_SR_2/1169
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number

HUMFA_34-12-5d
Object Ownership Information

In the collection of: Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM_8083, formerly EMC_JE_67596).
Date of Register Entry

12/12/1934
Notes

Coppr saw (in three pieces) and three fragments (two fitting, other perhaps fitting saw) originally registered as HUMFA_34-12-5d; saw and fitting fragment in collection of Grand Egyptian Museum, GEM_8083; two fitting fragments registered as GEM_8087.