Limestone tray for Opening of the Mouth set
Limestone plate with holes for pesesh-kef wand and six dummy vessels; broken in two, two corners knocked off.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_13-1-536
- Alternate IDs
- 13-1-536; HUMFA_13-1-536
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6
- Entry Date
- January 1913
- Title
- Limestone tray for Opening of the Mouth set
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Width: 4.6 cm Length: 17.3 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- G 2382 [(originally thought to be a tomb, but now known to be a jumbled deposit of limestone blocks from other nearby tombs)], [Senedjemib complex] court
- Bibliography
- D'Auria, Sue, Peter Lacovara, and Catharine H. Roehrig. Mummies & Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1988, pp. 80-81, cat. 11. Roth, Ann Macy. "Fingers, Stars, and the 'Opening of the Mouth': the Nature and Function of the nTrwj-blades." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 79 (1993), pp. 58, 60, notes 8 and 10, fig. 2. Roth, Ann Macy. "The PsS-kf and the 'Opening of the Mouth' Ceremony: A Ritual of Birth and Rebirth." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 78 (1992), p. 115, note 14. Smith, William Stevenson. Ancient Egypt as Represented in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1960 (6th ed.), p. 67.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
