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1 of 3 • Copper tools from Menkaure valley temple (1908): left, top row: MFA 11.841 (chisel); left, second row: __-__-__, __-__-__; left, third row: MFA 11.845 (knife blade, fragment), __-__-__, __-__-__; left, bottom row: MFA 11.843 (harpoon point), __-__-__, MFA 11.842 (adze blade); right, top: MFA 11.784 (axe head), right, bottom: MFA 11.785 (adze blade)
Copper tools from Menkaure valley temple (1908): left, top row: MFA 11.841 (chisel); left, second row: __-__-__, __-__-__; left, third row: MFA 11.845 (knife blade, fragment), __-__-__, __-__-__; left, bottom row: MFA 11.843 (harpoon point), __-__-__, MFA 11.842 (adze blade); right, top: MFA 11.784 (axe head), right, bottom: MFA 11.785 (adze blade)
Copper tools from Menkaure valley temple (1908): left, top row: MFA 11.841 (chisel); left, second row: __-__-__, __-__-__; left, third row: MFA 11.845 (knife blade, fragment), __-__-__, __-__-__; left, bottom row: MFA 11.843 (harpoon point), __-__-__, MFA 11.842 (adze blade); right, left: MFA 11.785 (adze blade); right, right: MFA 11.784 (axe head)
Menkaure valley temple, court, room I 338 sub, copper axe head (MFA 11.784) and adze blade (MFA 11.785) in situ, looking W
Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Bronze axe head; light green incrustation, spot of bronze disease, also incrustation of dirt.
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- ID
- MFAB_11.784
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- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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- Classification
- Tools & equipment-Woodworking and stoneworking
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- Findspot
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / I 338 sub)
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- Material
- Bronze
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- Dimensions
- Width x length: 16.4 x 14.3 cm (6 7/16 x 5 5/8 in.)
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- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Object Ownership Information
- MFA
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- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
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- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. Excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; 1911: assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt. (Accession date: March 2, 1911)
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- Site Name Menkaure Pyramid Complex
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Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 231 (no. 10) pl. 65i (misidentified as no. 9).
