Limestone canopy pole socket
Limestone [canopy pole socket] (cf. 25-3-232); sign [GLYPHS] near hole; chipped.
Illustration: No.
Supplementary illustration: Yes.
Supplementary illustration scale: no scale
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_25-3-238
- Alternate IDs
- 25-3-238; HUMFA_25-3-238
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Architectural elements-Miscellaneous
- Entry Date
- 03/06/1925
- Title
- Limestone canopy pole socket
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height: 19.3 cm Width: bottom: 27.7 cm; top: 15.5 cm Diameter: bore: 6.3 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, [shaft], debris 24 cm - 50 cm down
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A., and William Stevenson Smith. The Tomb of Hetep-Heres the Mother of Cheops: a Study of Egyptian Civilization in the Old Kingdom. A History of the Giza Necropolis 2. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1955, p. 14, fig. 17 (mislabeled 25-2-238).