Fragments of mud sealings
Five fragments of mud sealings and crumbled remains of two others; impressions incomplete, illegible. [07-1-88]
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- ID
- HUMFA_07-1-88
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- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Classification
- Seals, sealings & stoppers
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- Findspot
- Menkaure Pyramid Temple ([MPT] GMT / corridor 22)
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- Material
- Mud
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- Dimensions
- Overall: 2.6 x 1.7 x 4.1 cm (1 x 11/16 x 1 5/8 in.)
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- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Previous Number
- 7-1-88
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- Object Ownership Information
- MFA
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- Period
- Old Kingdom
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- 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.
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- Remarks
- Registration number obtained from publication; no registration records for 1907. Only five of eight sealings assigned registration number 07-1-88 in publication MFA owned (unaccessioned).
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- Site Name Menkaure Pyramid Complex
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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.