Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7762
[Cowrie] shell in silver sheeting. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:1
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- ID
- EMC_JE_56966
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- Department
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Amulets and pendants
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- Findspot
- Pit G 7762 S, small body in coffin, right wrist and fingers on right hand
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- Material
- Silver
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- Dimensions
- Length 1.25 cm
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- Credit Line
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
- HUMFA_29-12-240f (3)
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- Cairo Special Register number
- EMC_SR_7/5173
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- Date of Register Entry
- [12/13/1929]
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- Object owned by
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Notes
- Eight silver cowrie shells originally registered as HUMFA_29-12-240f (3); five in collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (unaccessioned), two in Egyptian Museum, Cairo (EMC_JE_56966 and EMC_JE_56968), location of eighth unknown.
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- Remarks
- Coffin and mummy (29-12-240) were removed from burial chamber on December 13 (see diary Vol.24.p.1000).
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- Site Name Eastern Cemetery
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- Type Object owned by
