Bronze tool: needle
Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7110-7120, street G 7000, G 7811, avenue G 2, street G 7200, street G 7400, G 7510, G 7101
Large bronze needle, eye at one end (eye formed by drawing out shaft, bending over, and hammering against shaft itself); broken in two.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_24-11-851
- Alternate IDs
- 24-11-851; HUMFA_24-11-851
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Tools & equipment-Textile-making
- Entry Date
- 11/26/1924
- Title
- Bronze tool: needle
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- Width: eye: .825 cm Length: 17.8 cm Diameter: .475 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- [Street G 7000], SE corner of subsidiary pyramid [G I-a]
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified