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Fragment of limestone with hieratic inscription

Fragment of white limestone; three worked surfaces, one smooth with hieratic inscription (date) in red ink. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:1, 1:4

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_38-2-5
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Inscribed fragments
  • Findspot
    Mastaba G 1203 (found by William Stevenson Smith in trench dug in search for another shaft in filling of G 1203)
  • Material
    Limestone
  • Dimensions
    Height: 13 cm Width: 13 cm Length: 36 cm Thickness: 20.5 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA
  • Date of Register Entry
    02/16/1938

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 1203

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Published Documents 1

Unpublished Documents 2

Full Bibliography

  • Manuelian, Peter Der. Slab Stelae of the Giza Necropolis. Publications of the Pennsylvania–Yale Expedition to Egypt 7. New Haven and Philadelphia: Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2003, p. 45, figs. 32-33.