Mud sealing with seal impressions
Mud sealing; fragment of mud with impression of official seal of Sehetep-tauwy (Teti of Dynasty 6). [07-1-84]
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_07-1-84
- Alternate IDs
- 07-1-84; HUMFA_07-1-84; 7-1-84
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Seals, sealings & stoppers
- Period
- Old Kingdom
- Title
- Mud sealing with seal impressions
- Medium
- Mud
- Dimensions
- Overall: 0.8 x 1.8 x 2.1 cm (5/16 x 11/16 x 13/16 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, 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.