Stone tool: granite hammer
Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7242, G 7530-7540, street G 7500, G 7450, street G 7300
Black granite hammer.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2; 1:4
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_27-4-1243
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_27-4-1243; 27-4-1243
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Tools & equipment-Woodworking and stoneworking
- Entry Date
- 04/30/1927
- Title
- Stone tool: granite hammer
- Medium
- Granite
- Dimensions
- Width: 17 cm Length: 18 cm Thickness: 8 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Street G 7500, debris S of door of mastaba G 7530-7540: G 7530, room a
- Bibliography
- Dunham, Dows, and William Kelly Simpson. The Mastaba of Queen Mersyankh III (G 7530-7540). Giza Mastabas 1. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1974, p. 23, fig. 15. Markowitz, Yvonne J., Joyce L. Haynes, and Rita E. Freed. Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids: Highlights from the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expedition. Boston: MFA Publications, 2002, p. 71, cat. 19c.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
