Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza
Alabaster model knife, rectangular, with bevelled end; used in the opening of the mouth ritual.
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- ID
- GEM_7421
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- Department
- Grand Egyptian Museum
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- Classification
- Tools & Equipment-Ritual implements
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- Findspot
- From tomb near the Eastern Cemetery
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- Material
- Calcite/Alabaster
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- Dimensions
- 2.0 x 7.5 cm
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- Credit Line
- Grand Egyptian Museum
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- Journal d'Entree number
- EMC_JE_47926
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- Cairo Special Register number
- EMC_SR_2/853
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- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
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- Excavator
- Tewfik Boulos (Effendi)
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- Notes
- Found by Tewfik Boulos, July 7, 1923.
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- Remarks
- ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): EMC_JE_47926; EMC_SR_2.853
Modern People
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- Type Excavator
- Nationality & Dates
- Remarks Antiquities inspector. After 1924, Chief Inspector of the Department of Antiquities in Egypt.
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