Digital Giza | Lid of copper bell censer

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2006

Lid of copper bell censer (EMC_JE_67601); hammered into shape out of one sheet of copper without any joint, loop handle thicker and rectangular in section, jammed in, protruding below; heavily oxidized, handle partly corroded. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

ID

EMC_JE_67602
Department

Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Classification

Tools & equipment-Miscellaneous
Findspot

Pit G 2006 A, chamber
Material

Copper
Dimensions

Height: lid: 2.6 cm + handle = total 5 cm; bell censer bowl: 2.4 cm Width: handle of lid: .2 cm Length: stem: 12 cm; handle of lid: .4 cm Diameter: lid: 9.4 - 9.6 cm; bell censer bowl: 9.2 cm; stem min: 2.5 cm; stem max: 3.6 cm; lower end: 4.4 cm Thickness: copper sheets: ca .08 - .1 cm
Credit Line

Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number

HUMFA_36-3-59
Cairo Special Register number

EMC_SR_3/756
Object Ownership Information

In the collection of: Egyptian Museum, Cairo (EMC_JE_67602)
Date of Register Entry

03/30/1936
Object owned by

Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Notes

Censer and lid originally registered as HUMFA_36-3-59; now in collection of Egyptian Museum, Cairo, EMC_JE_67601 (censer) and EMC_JE_67602 (lid).