Stone tool: limestone mallet
Large white limestone mallet, belongs with 25-12-331, whether practical tool or imitation not yet known; mallet seems of too fragile material to be used on stone work and of not right shape for use in pounding mud floors, original may have looked like [DIAGRAM] and have been worked in following way: two cords running through holes, fastened weight to long horizontal bar by which two men raised weight and dropped it; the dotted line represents small fragment. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:4
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- ID
- HUMFA_13-11-34
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- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Classification
- Tools & equipment-Woodworking and stoneworking
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- Findspot
- Pit G 4140 A
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- Material
- Limestone
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- Dimensions
- Height: 25+ cm Diameter: 24 cm
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- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Date of Register Entry
- 11/01/1913
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- Remarks
- Other end of this pounding stone (25-12-331) found on December 23, 1925 in theives' dump from pit of G 4140 A, thrown over back of that mastaba.
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
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Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 461, fig. 279, p. 464.