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Limestone offering basin inscribed for [xrp mnmnt jny] "the controller of the cattle (herdsman), Iny", inscription repeats on each side on inner surface of basin.

Details

ID
HM_6-19798
Alternate IDs
6-19798; HM_6-19798
Department
Hearst Museum, Berkeley
Classification
Tomb equipment-Offering tables and basins
Entry Date
1903–1904
Title
Limestone offering basin of Iny
Medium
Limestone
Dimensions
43 x 25 x 12 cm (16 15/16 x 9 13/16 x 4 3/4 in)
Credit Line
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Hearst Egyptian Expedition
Provenance
Mastaba G 1235, chapel
Bibliography
Lutz, Henry F. Egyptian Tomb Steles and Offering Stones of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology of the University of California. University of California Publications. Egyptian Archaeology 4. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, 1927, pp. 1, 15, pl. 5.9. Manuelian, Peter Der. Slab Stelae of the Giza Necropolis. Publications of the Pennsylvania–Yale Expedition to Egypt 7. New Haven and Philadelphia: Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2003, p. 74, figs. 95-97. Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L.B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings 3: Memphis (Abû Rawâsh to Dahshûr). Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1931. 2nd edition. 3: Memphis, Part 1 (Abû Rawâsh to Abûsîr), revised and augmented by Jaromír Málek. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1974, p. 61. Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 412, fig. 236, p. 413.

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