Stone tool: sandstone whetstone
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
White sandstone polishing stone; used on all four sides, traces of copper.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_33-1-57
- Alternate IDs
- 33-1-57; HUMFA_33-1-57
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Tools & equipment-Woodworking and stoneworking
- Entry Date
- 01/14/1933
- Title
- Stone tool: sandstone whetstone
- Medium
- Sandstone
- Dimensions
- Width: 11 cm Length: 12.2 cm Thickness: 5.4 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 2150 A, debris of chamber
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 443, fig. 267, p. 445.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified