Digital Giza | Copper bell censer with lid

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2006

Copper bell censer with lid; made of five separate pieces, lid hammered into shape out of one sheet of copper without any joint, loop handle thicker and rectangular in section, jammed in, protruding below, bowl (as lid) made of one sheet without joint, [cylindrical stem] made of one sheet rolled into cylinder form with verical overlapping joint with rivets (?), filled with pink plaster and closed at bottom by circular disc with edge rolled upward around stem, upper part of stem [protrudes through hole in center of bowl] bent outward inside bowl, bowl twisted, but circumference about 1 cm smaller than that of lid; heavily oxidized, handle partly corroded. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

ID

EMC_JE_67601
Department

Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Classification

Tools & equipment-Miscellaneous
Findspot

Pit G 2006 A, chamber
Material

Copper
Dimensions

Height: lid: 2.6 cm + handle = total 5 cm; bell censer bowl: 2.4 cm Width: handle of lid: .2 cm Length: stem: 12 cm; handle of lid: .4 cm Diameter: lid: 9.4 - 9.6 cm; bell censer bowl: 9.2 cm; stem min: 2.5 cm; stem max: 3.6 cm; lower end: 4.4 cm Thickness: copper sheets: ca .08 - .1 cm
Credit Line

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

HUMFA_36-3-59
Cairo Special Register number

EMC_SR_3/756
Object Ownership Information

In the collection of: Egyptian Museum, Cairo (EMC_JE_67601)
Date of Register Entry

03/30/1936
Object owned by

Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Notes

Censer and lid originally registered as HUMFA_36-3-59; now in collection of Egyptian Museum, Cairo, EMC_JE_67601 (censer) and EMC_JE_67602 (lid).