Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1457
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- Tomb Owner
- Nisutnefret (G 1457)
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- Attested
- Peretim (in G 1457)
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- Excavator
- George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
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- Reisner Date
- Menkaure
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- PorterMoss Date
- Probably Dynasty 5
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- Baer Date
- Dynasty 5
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- Site Type
- Mud-brick mastaba
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- Shafts
- G 1457 A; G 1457 B; G 1457 Chapel
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- Remarks
- Mastaba built on independent site west of G 1407 and south of G 1454+1455.
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- HUMFA_34-12-9
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- HUMFA_34-12-20
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- HUMFA_34-12-16
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- GEM_8084
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- GEM_8086
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- GEM_8085
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- GEM_8083
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Fragment of mud sealing with seal impressions
- HUMFA_34-12-8a
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Fragment of mud sealing with seal impressions
- HUMFA_34-12-8b
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Fragment of mud sealing with seal impressions
- HUMFA_34-12-8c
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Fragment of pottery flaring bowl
- HUMFA_34-11-4
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- HUMFA_34-12-7
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Fragmentary pottery bowl with recurved rim
- HUMFA_34-11-10
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Fragmentary pottery neckless shoulder jar
- HUMFA_34-11-8
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- HUMFA_34-12-6
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- HUMFA_34-12-15
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Fragments of cloth mummy wrappings
- HUMFA_34-12-12
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- GEM_8087
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- HUMFA_34-12-13
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- HUMFA_34-11-1
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- HUMFA_34-12-11
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- HUMFA_34-12-17
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Fragments of pottery bowl with recurved rim
- HUMFA_34-12-21f
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Fragments of pottery model jars
- HUMFA_34-12-21b
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- HUMFA_34-11-2
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- HUMFA_34-12-10
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Inscribed pottery offering stand
- EMC_JE_67622
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- HUMFA_34-12-14
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- HUMFA_34-12-18a
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- HUMFA_34-12-18b
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- HUMFA_34-12-18c
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- HUMFA_34-12-19
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- HUMFA_34-12-21a
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- HUMFA_34-12-21e
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- HUMFA_34-12-21c
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- HUMFA_34-12-21d
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- HUMFA_34-11-3
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- Diary page dates 01/11/1935; 01/12/1935; 01/13/1935; 01/14/1935; 01/15/1935; 01/16/1935
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- Diary page dates 01/14/1937 through 01/20/1937
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Drawing of objects from G 1457, G 2381, G 5232, G 7143
- ID HUMFA_EG024962
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- ID HUMFA_EG023764
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G 1457 a: pottery, offering jar
- ID HUMFA_EG023744
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G 1457, Shaft A: pottery, model jar
- ID HUMFA_EG023717
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G 1457, Shaft A, Plan with positions of objects, and objects
- ID HUMFA_EG023797
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G 1457, Shaft A, chamber: pottery, jar
- ID HUMFA_EG023778
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G 1457, Shaft A: pottery fragment, bowl
- ID HUMFA_EG023695
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G 1457, Shaft A: pottery, bowl with recurved rim
- ID HUMFA_EG023821
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- ID HUMFA_EG021910
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G 1457, Shaft A: pottery, model jar
- ID HUMFA_EG023767
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G 1457, Shaft A: pottery, model jar
- ID HUMFA_EG023822
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G 1457, Shaft A: pottery, neckless shouldered jar
- ID HUMFA_EG023784
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G 1457, Shaft A: pottery, neckless shouldered jar
- ID HUMFA_EG023827
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- ID HUMFA_EG025087
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G 1457: chapel entrance, drum lintel
- ID HUMFA_EG020869
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G 1457: drawing and measurements of drum lintel and false door
- ID HUMFA_EG020867
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G 1457: false door, inscribed tablet
- ID HUMFA_EG022414
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G 1457: relief from drum lintel
- ID HUMFA_EG020868
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G 1457: relief from false door, lower lintel
- ID HUMFA_EG020864
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G 1457: relief from false door, upper lintel
- ID HUMFA_EG020870
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Objects from G 1457, G 2381, G 5232, G 7143
- ID HUMFA_EG025034
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Pottery jars from G 1457, G 4140, G 4530, G 4630
- ID HUMFA_EG022201
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Pottery jars from G 1457, G 4140, G 4530, G 4630, G 5080
- ID HUMFA_EG022130
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Pottery offering stands from G 1407, G 1457, G 2006, G 2132, G 4422
- ID HUMFA_EG022138
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Sealings from G 1457, Shaft A; G 5080, Shaft B; G 5190, Shaft A
- ID HUMFA_EG022059
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Tools, copper, from G 1457, G 2360, G 6040, G 7940
- ID HUMFA_EG025033
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- ID: HUMFA_GN2_K03_ChapX_p147
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- ID: HUMFA_GN2_K03_ChapX_p225
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- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L04_G1000TombPlans_p006
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- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L08_p006_insert
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- ID: HUMFA_OR.Vol.27
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- ID: HUMFA_EG015839
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- ID: HUMFA_PL4
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- ID: HUMFA_PL6
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- ID: HUMFA_PL36
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- ID: HUMFA_PL78
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- ID: HUMFA_PL79
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- ID: HUMFA_PL80
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- ID: HUMFA_PL92
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- ID: HUMFA_PL174
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- ID: HUMFA_PL181
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- ID: HUMFA_PL186
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- ID: HUMFA_PL187
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- ID: HUMFA_PL189
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- ID: HUMFA_PL535
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- ID: HUMFA_PL1016
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- ID: HUMFA_PL1020
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- ID: HUMFA_PL1029
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- ID: HUMFA_PL1174
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- ID: HUMFA_PL1175
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Hawass, Zahi. "Unique Statues at Giza V: The Exceptional Statue of the Priest Kai and His Family." In Khaled Daoud, Shafia Bedier & Sawsan Abd el-Fatah, eds. Studies in Honor of Ali Radwan. Supplément aux Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte, no. 34. Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities, 2005, p. 26, plan 2.
Hawass, Zahi. "Excavating the Old Kingdom. The Egyptian Archaeologists." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 163.
Hawass, Zahi. "The Statue of the Dwarf Pr-n(j)-anx(w) Recently Discovered at Giza." Festschrift für Werner Kaiser. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 47 (1991), pp. 157, 162.
Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L.B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings 3: Memphis (Abû Rawâsh to Dahshûr). Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1931. 2nd edition. 3: Memphis, Part 1 (Abû Rawâsh to Abûsîr), revised and augmented by Jaromír Málek. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1974, p. 64.
Reisner, George A. "Report on the Egyptian Expedition during 1934-35." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 33, No. 199 (October 1935), pp. 70, 72, fig. 2.
Reisner, unpublished manuscript, Box L 8, Appendix J: The Mastabas in Cemeteries G 1400 and G 3000, pp. 38-42.
Ancient People
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- Type Tomb Owner
- Remarks Owner of G 1457. Chapel entrance drum lintel and false door (including upper lintel) inscribed for Nisutnefret, identified as [rx nswt Hrj-sStA n nswt xrp n wabw nswt jmj-r Axt-xwfw jmj-r wabt nswt Hm-nTr xwfw] royal acquaintance, secretary of the king, director of royal wab-priests, overseer of the pyramid of Khufu, overseer of the royal wabet, priest of khufu; in situ in G 1457. Fragments of lintel and drum lintel (37-1-7, 37-1-8) inscribed for Nisutnefret; found east of G 1457.
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Wife of Nisutnefret (owner of G 1457). Appears on false door inscribed for Nisutnefret, tablet, identified as [rxt nswt] royal acquaintance; in situ in G 1457.
Modern People
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- Type Excavator
- 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.
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1457, G 1407
Description: Cemetery G 1400: street between G 1407 (to E) and G 1457 (to W), looking S
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1457, G 1407
Description: Cemetery G 1400: street between G 1457 (to W) and G 1407 (to E), looking N
ID: HUMFA_C12895_OS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1407, G 1457, G 1412, G 1452+1453, G 1451
Description: Cemetery G 1400: space between G 1407 (to E) and G 1457 (to W), looking N to SW corner of G 1412 (to E) and E faces of G 1452+1453 and G 1451 (to W)
ID: HUMFA_C12896_OS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1412, G 1452+1453, G 1407, G 1457
Description: Cemetery G 1400: space between G 1412 (to E) and G 1452+1453 (to W), looking S to G 1407 (to E) and G 1457 (to W)
ID: HUMFA_B8778_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1457, G 1407
Description: Cemetery G 1400: street between G 1407 (to E) and G 1457 (to W), looking S
ID: HUMFA_B8779_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1457, G 1407
Description: Cemetery G 1400: street between G 1457 (to W) and G 1407 (to E), looking N
ID: HUMFA_B8471_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 1457
Description: Four copper model tools from G 1457 A: top row: 34-12-5a (axe head), 34-12-5d (two fitting fragments), 34-12-5b (chisel, upper), 34-12-5c (chisel, lower); bottom row: 34-12-5d (saw)
ID: HUMFA_B8362_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1457
Description: Cemetery G 1400: G 1457 B, door block, looking S
ID: HUMFA_B8364_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1457
Description: Cemetery G 1400: G 1457, top of mastaba, break in chapel roof, looking S
ID: HUMFA_B8365_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1457
Description: Cemetery G 1400: G 1457, top of mastaba, break in chapel roof, looking NW
ID: HUMFA_B8370_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1457
Description: Cemetery G 1400: G 1457 A, SE corner of burial chamber, canopic pit, looking SE
ID: HUMFA_B8807_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 1457
Description: Twenty-four fragments of relief from lintel and one from drum lintel of [GLYPHS] Nisutnefret from G 1457: top and middle rows: 37-1-7; bottom row: 37-1-8
ID: HUMFA_C13473_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 1457, G 1407
Description: Pottery: two offering stands: [G 1407 a] 34-12-3, [G 1457 a] 34-11-9 (= Egyptian Museum, Cairo JE 67622, inscribed)
ID: HUMFA_C13474_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 1457
Description: Pottery: inscribed offering stand (detail of inscription) from G 1457 a: 34-11-9 (= Egyptian Museum, Cairo JE 67622)
ID: HUMFA_C13475_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 1457
Description: Three fragments of mud sealings with seal impressions (Horus name of Menkaure) from G 1457 A: 34-12-8a, 34-12-8c (upper), 34-12-8b (lower)
ID: HUMFA_A7738_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1457
Description: Cemetery G 1400: G 1457 chapel, entrance, drum lintel inscribed for Nisutnefret, looking W
ID: HUMFA_A7736_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1457
Description: Cemetery G 1400: G 1457 a, chapel, W wall, false door inscribed for Nisutnefret, tablet (Nisutnefret and Peretim seated at offering table) and crossbar (= lower lintel), looking W
ID: HUMFA_A7737_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1457
Description: Cemetery G 1400: G 1457 a, chapel, W wall, false door inscribed for Nisutnefret, upper lintel, tablet (Nisutnefret and Peretim seated at offering table), crossbar (= lower lintel), and drum lintel, looking W
ID: HUMFA_A7249_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1457
Description: Cemetery G 1400: G 1457, chapel, entrance, drum lintel inscribed for Nisutnefret, looking W
ID: HUMFA_A7250_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1457
Description: Cemetery G 1400: G 1457 a, chapel, W wall, offering niche, false door inscribed for Nisutnefret, offering stand (34-11-9 = Cairo JE 67622) in situ, looking WSW
ID: HUMFA_A7251_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1457
Description: Cemetery G 1400: G 1457 a, chapel, W wall, offering niche, false door inscribed for Nisutnefret, offering stand (34-11-9 = Cairo JE 67622) in situ, looking W
ID: HUMFA_A7252_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1457
Description: Cemetery G 1400: G 1457 A, burial chamber, looking SW
ID: HUMFA_A7253_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1457
Description: Cemetery G 1400: G 1457, chapel entrance and top of S end of mastaba, looking W
ID: HUMFA_A7254_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1457
Description: Cemetery G 1400: G 1457 a, chapel, S end of arched roof with break, looking S
ID: HUMFA_A7255_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1457
Description: Cemetery G 1400: G 1457 a, chapel, S end of arched roof with break, looking S
ID: HUMFA_A7256_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1457
Description: Cemetery G 1400: G 1457, top of mastaba, S end, break in chapel roof, looking W
ID: HUMFA_A7257_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1457
Description: Cemetery G 1400: G 1457 B, burial (skeleton, remains of cloth wrappings 34-12-12) in remains of wood coffin (34-12-10) in chamber, looking SW
ID: HUMFA_A7258_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1457
Description: Cemetery G 1400: G 1457 A, burial chamber, looking W
ID: GEM_8083_001
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: G 1457
Description: Copper saw, broken in three pieces; from G 1457 A, debris of burial chamber: GEM_8083 (= HUMFA_34-12-5d = EMC_JE_67596 = EMC_SR_2/1169)
ID: GEM_8084_001
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: G 1457
Description: Copper axe head from G 1457 A, debris of burial chamber: GEM_8084 (= HUMFA_34-12-5a = EMC_JE_67597 = EMC_SR_2/1170)
ID: GEM_8085_001
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: G 1457
Description: Copper chisel from G 1457 A, debris of burial chamber: GEM_8085 (= HUMFA_34-12-5c = EMC_JE_67598 = EMC_SR_2/1171)
ID: GEM_8086_001
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: G 1457
Description: Copper chisel from G 1457 A, debris of burial chamber: GEM_8086 (= HUMFA_34-12-5b = EMC_JE_67599 = EMC_SR_2/1172)
ID: GEM_8087_001
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: G 1457
Description: Two fitting fragments of copper tool from G 1457 A, debris of burial chamber: GEM_8087 (= HUMFA_34-12-5d = EMC_JE_67600 = EMC_SR_2/1173)
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