Mud sealing with seal impressions
Mud sealing; lump of mud with round top, flat bottom with marks of double strings crossing at right angles and marks of two knots (was attached to wooden surface, door or box), covered with seal impressions in which lower part of frame of Horus- name visible, perhaps Iset-ib-tauwy (Niuserre). [07-1-81]
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_07-1-81
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_07-1-81; 07-1-81
- 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: 6.5 x 2.3 cm (2 9/16 x 7/8 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.
- 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.