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Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2360, G 2382, G 2381, G 2360, G 2353, G 2378, G 2385, G 2374, G 2334, G 2384, G 2370

Miscellaneous flints, and copper, wood, bone, mud objects: top row: [G 2360 A] 12-11-11a (= MFA 13.3452, one of three flints), [G 2382] 12-12-6 (flint), [G 2381] 12-12-18 (flint), [G 2382] 12-12-21b (upper, flint), 12-12-21a (lower, flint), [G 2360 A] 12-11-12 (upper item, glass paste inlay), 12-11-13 (middle item, glass paste inlay), [G 2353 B] 12-11-51 (lower item, copper needles), [G 2378] 12-12-41 (= MFA 13.3457, dried mud plummet), [G 2370 A] 12-11-30 (copper handle ?); middle row, left: [G 2385 A] 12-12-85 (upper item, alabaster), [G 2382] 12-12-112 (middle item, alabaster), [G 2334 X] 13-1-525 (= MFA 13.5136, lower item, copper needle or drill), [G 2381 B] 12-12-171 (flint), [G 2360 A] 12-11-19 (gilded copper); middle row, right: [G 2385 room B] 12-12-190 (= MFA 13.3455, bone awl), [G 2384] 12-12-36 (= MFA 13.3456, bone spatula), [G 2370 A] 12-11-30 (copper knives); bottom row: [G 2385 A] 12-12-105 (= MFA 13.3441, upper item, wood), 12-12-106 (lower item, wood forearm with hand), [G 2381 B] 12-12-170 (bone), [G 2385 S2] 12-12-43b (wood arm)

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_A992_NS
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Subjects
    Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2360, G 2382, G 2381, G 2360, G 2353, G 2378, G 2385, G 2374, G 2334, G 2384, G 2370
  • Date
    June 1913
  • Remarks
    G 2385 A (assumed to be associated with mastaba G 2374); G 2387 A (main shaft of G 2385). Both shafts first excavated in 1912 and reexcavated in 1935.
  • Problems/Questions
    VERIFIED: first item on left, upper (middle row) originally designated 12-12-58 corrected to read 12-12-85; 12-12-41 (dried mud plummet) references this photo (as 1/8 in arrangement), added to description; no such number as 12-11-301, corrected to read 12-11-30; description corrected and expanded based on object register; MFA accession numbers verified; Brovarski references verified

Tombs and Monuments 10

  • G 2334

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

  • G 2353

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

  • G 2360

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

  • G 2370

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

  • G 2374

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

  • G 2378

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

  • G 2381

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

  • G 2382

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

  • G 2384

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

  • G 2385

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Finds 20

Unpublished Documents 23