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Fragment of white limestone; three worked surfaces, one smooth with hieratic inscription (date) in red ink.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:1, 1:4

Details

ID
HUMFA_38-2-5
Alternate IDs
38-2-5; HUMFA_38-2-5
Department
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification
Inscribed fragments
Entry Date
02/16/1938
Title
Fragment of limestone with hieratic inscription
Medium
Limestone
Dimensions
Height: 13 cm Width: 13 cm Length: 36 cm Thickness: 20.5 cm
Credit Line
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance
Mastaba G 1203 (found by William Stevenson Smith in trench dug in search for another shaft in filling of G 1203)
Bibliography
Manuelian, Peter Der. Slab Stelae of the Giza Necropolis. Publications of the Pennsylvania–Yale Expedition to Egypt 7. New Haven and Philadelphia: Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2003, p. 45, figs. 32-33.

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