Half of limestone food offering case for joint of meat
[Half of] limestone offering case for leg of beef [other half is MMA_37.6.5b]; yellow wash inside and out; three pieces, end broken off, missing.
Illustration: No
Details
- ID
- MMA_37.6.5a
- Alternate IDs
- 37.6.5a; MMA_37.6.5a; HUMFA_12-12-74; 12-12-74; MFAB_13.4308; 13.4308
- Department
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Classification
- Tomb equipment-Models
- Period
- Old Kingdom, First half of Dynasty 6
- Entry Date
- 12/10/1912
- Title
- Half of limestone food offering case for joint of meat
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height: 13 cm Width: 24 cm Length: 50+ cm
- Credit Line
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1937
- Provenance
- Pit G 2385 A (assumed to be associated with mastaba G 2374), debris in shaft
- Notes
- Excavated by the Harvard-Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expediton in Giza, 1912. Received from the Egyptian Government by the MFA in the allotment of finds (MFAB_13.4308). Deaccessioned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, by exchange in 1937.
- Remarks
- G 2385 A first excavated in 1912 and reexcavated in 1935. MMA_37.6.5a + MMA_37.6.5b: HUMFA_12-12-74 = MFAB_13.4308 (deaccessioned) + HUMFA_12-12-75 = MFAB_13.4309 (deaccessioned)
- Problems/Questions
- MFA and MMA accession numbers verified