Mud sealing with seal impressions
Mud sealing; lump of mud with string mark (box seal ?), two impressions of cylinder seal of Isesi (end of Dynasty 5). [07-1-82]
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_07-1-82
- Alternate IDs
- 07-1-82; HUMFA_07-1-82; 7-1-82
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Seals, sealings & stoppers
- Period
- Old Kingdom, end of Dynasty 5
- Title
- Mud sealing with seal impressions
- Medium
- Mud
- Dimensions
- Overall: 3.2 x 1 x 4 cm (1 1/4 x 3/8 x 1 9/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Pyramid Temple ([MPT] GMT / corridor 22)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 19. 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. 53, fig. 56.
- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 1907: Excavated by the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt.
- Remarks
- Registration number obtained from publication; no registration records available for 1907.