Amulets and beads from Menkaure pyramid temple, communal grave in room J1 (= pillared hall 27), all associated with mummy 71: top row: 07-2-87 (= MFA 11.1068, seal), 07-2-84 (= MFA 11.1121, glass vase), __-__-__ (ring beads); second row: 07-2-86 (= MFA 11.1054, scarab), 07-2-89 (= MFA 11.1052, flask amulet); third row: 07-2-88 (= MFA 11.970, rectangular amulet), 07-2-90 (two udjats, complete amulet = MFA 11.998, fragment = MFA 11.1053); fourth and bottom rows: 07-2-91 (cowrie shells and faience cylinder beads)
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- ID
- HUMFA_C2879_NS
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- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Subjects
- Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure pyramid temple
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- Date
- April 1910
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- Problems/Questions
- VERIFIED: mounted print archive card identifies these as 07-2-84 to 91 (no registration records from this date); specific identifications based on publication p. 261; MFA accession numbers verified; according to published caption: amulets from mummy no. 71 (this would be room 27); Reisner reference verified
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- Site Name Menkaure Pyramid Complex
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- MFAB_11.970
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- MFAB_11.1052
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Faience udjat (eye of Horus) amulet
- MFAB_11.998
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Fragment of faience udjat (eye of Horus) amulet
- MFAB_11.1053
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- MFAB_11.1121
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- MFAB_11.1054
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- MFAB_11.1068
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