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Limestone model food offering

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza

Limestone model food offering (conical bread loaf).

Details

  • ID
    GEM_10925
  • Department
    Grand Egyptian Museum
  • Classification
    Tomb equipment-Models
  • Findspot
    Giza
  • Material
    Limestone
  • Dimensions
    16.5 cm
  • Credit Line
    Grand Egyptian Museum
  • Journal d'Entree number
    EMC_JE_49702
  • Cairo Special Register number
    EMC_SR_2/1024
  • Hermann Junker excavation number
    HJ_exc_2448
  • Period
    Old Kingdom
  • Excavator
    Hermann Junker, German, 1877–1962
  • Notes
    From excavations of Hermann Junker, 1925-1926. Two such model offerings registered as EMC_JE_49701 and EMC_JE_49702 (both = EMC_SR_2/1024); GEM_10925 appears to be only the larger of the two (EMC_JE_49702), but the record is vague and could perhaps include both.
  • Remarks
    RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): Vienna Academy of Sciences; ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): EMC_JE_49702; EMC_SR_2.1024; HJ_exc_2448

People 1

Modern People

  • Hermann Junker

    • Type Excavator
    • Nationality & Dates German, 1877–1962
    • Remarks Egyptologist, Director of German-Austrian expedition to Giza, 1911–1929. Published 12 volumes of final excavation reports from Giza expedition. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.