Limestone door socket
Piece of limestone with hole for door post. Photograph: yes.
Details
- ID
- EMC_JE_92439
- Alternate IDs
- EMC_JE_92439; JE_92439; KK_exc_487; exc_487; EMC_SR_2/17702; SR_2/17702
- Department
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Classification
- Architectural elements-Doors, jambs, lintels
- Period
- Early Dynastic Period
- Title
- Limestone door socket
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- 18 cm
- Credit Line
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Provenance
- S of Menkaure "Gateway"(?). Based on Plan 1 in Kromer, Nezlet Batran, the area excavated seems to be south of Menkaure Valley Temple and modern Muslim cemetery.
- Notes
- From excavations of Karl Kromer, Innsbruck University, 1973.
- Remarks
- RELATED MEDIA: EMC_JE_XIX_Sp069LR; RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): Karl Kromer; ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): KK_exc_487