Object register page:
Thirty boxes (and loose scraps) of gold leaf, silver, faience inlay, copper, wood, plaster, and mud from tomb of Hetepheres.
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- ID
- EMC_TR_18.4.47.5
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- Department
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Classification
- Unclassified
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- Findspot
- G 7000 X
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- Material
- Various
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- Credit Line
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Period
- Old Kingdom
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- Excavator
- George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
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- Object owned by
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Notes
- From excavations of George Reisner. "Residue awaiting reconstruction. Brought in from Reisner's camp (April 1947). All labelled by Dows Dunham, and listed in the file with chief Kaaper[?]."
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- Remarks
- RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): George Reisner; RELATED SITE(S): G 7000 X; RELATED MEDIA: EMC_TR_IX_Sp161LR
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- Site Name Eastern Cemetery
Modern People
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- Type Excavator
- Nationality & Dates American, 1867–1942
- Remarks Egyptologist, archaeologist; Referred to as "the doctor" and "mudir" (Arabic for "director") in the excavation records. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.
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- Type Object owned by
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