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Limestone [canopy pole socket].
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:5.
Additional illustration: Yes.
Additional illustration scale: 1:2

Details

ID
HUMFA_25-3-232
Alternate IDs
HUMFA_25-3-232; 25-3-232
Department
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification
Architectural elements-Miscellaneous
Entry Date
03/06/1925
Title
Limestone canopy pole socket
Medium
Limestone
Dimensions
Height: 19 cm Width: 24.5 cm; 14 cm Diameter: bore: 7 cm
Credit Line
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance
G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, [shaft], 22 cm down
Bibliography
Reisner, George A., and William Stevenson Smith. The Tomb of Hetep-Heres the Mother of Cheops: a Study of Egyptian Civilization in the Old Kingdom. A History of the Giza Necropolis 2. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1955, p. 14, fig. 17 (mislabeled 25-2-232).

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