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Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 3003, G 3015

Fragment of sunk relief limestone lintel of Nefersehetep from debris between G 3003 and G 3015: University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia E 13540 (now much weathered and in two pieces)

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_B12995_OS
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Subjects
    Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 3003, G 3015
  • Date
    November 1906
  • Remarks
    Unpublished Reisner Hearst report attributes this object to G 1233; despite discrepancy in dates between object photographs (C12001_OS and B12995_OS, dated 1904 and 1906) and Fisher's excavations (1915), this object definitely identified as University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia E 13540 (published by Fisher).
  • Problems/Questions
    VERIFIED: stela corrected to read lintel; lintel "of [GLYPHS] from G 1233, in debris" deleted from description; unpublished Reisner Hearst report attributes this object to G 1233
  • Photographer
    George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942

Tombs and Monuments 3

  • G 1233

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

  • G 3003

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

  • G 3015

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Finds 1

People 1

Modern People

  • George Andrew Reisner

    • Type Photographer
    • 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.