Limestone boring core
Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2150, G 2200 = G 5080, G 2342 = G 5020, G 2370, G 5520, G 2340 = G 5480, G 2120
Limestone boring core; hole in center on top and bottom.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_33-2-153
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_33-2-153; 33-2-153
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Tools & equipment-Miscellaneous
- Entry Date
- 02/05/1933
- Title
- Limestone boring core
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height: 7.3 cm Diameter: 6 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 2200 (= G 5080) B, debris of chamber
- 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. 100 (included among stone vessel Type X b).
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified