Plaster writing board
Plaster writing board; with list of deities, beginning with names of kings of Dynasty 5
Details
- ID
- GEM_3215
- Alternate IDs
- 3215; GEM_3215; EMC_JE_37734; JE_37734; EMC_SR_4/599; SR_4/599
- Department
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Classification
- Tools & equipment-Writing
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5
- Title
- Plaster writing board
- Medium
- Plaster
- Dimensions
- GEM: 4.4 x 16.6 x 76.2 cm; 3460 g; JE: 69 x 12 cm
- Credit Line
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Provenance
- G 1011 A
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. “A Scribe’s Tablet found by the Hearst Expedition at Giza.” Richard Lepsius als Erinnerungsdenkmal zum hundertsten Geburtstage, Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 48 (1911), pp. 113–114. Smith, William Stevenson. “The Old Kingdom in Egypt,” The Cambridge Ancient History, rev. ed. of vols. I & II, Cambridge University Press, 1962, pp. 8, 14, 63.
- Notes
- Two scribal writing boards were recovered during Reisner's excavations at Giza. There is some confusion concerning these objects due to incomplete record keeping; the photo register entries providing the most, but not necessarily most accurate, information. One was found in 1904 in pit G 1011 A (letter C on map; mentioned on tomb card for G 1011 C [A altered to read C]; in situ photos: HUMFA_C10181_OS, HUMFA_C10182_OS). That writing board is presumably the one in the collection of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM_3215 = EMC_JE_37734; photos: HUMFA_B11772_OS, HUMFA_B11773_OS, HUMFA_B11774A_OS). Information for the other writing board (MFAB_13.4301) is provided only by the photo register entry (photo HUMFA_A1021_NS, dated July 1913); the reference in that entry to "found 1905-06 by Lythgoe" may or may not be a mistaken reference to the other writing board. The most that can be stated concerning the provenance for MFAB_13.4301 is that it may have been found somewhere in cemetery G 2000.
- Remarks
- RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): George Reisner; RELATED SITE(S): G 1011 Pit C; ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): EMC_JE_37734; EMC_SR_4.599
