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Limestone [canopy pole socket] (cf. 25-3-232); has [DIAGRAM] (three strokes) incised near hole; traces of cement, very chipped.
Illustration: Yes.
Additional illustration: Yes.
Additional illustration scale: no scale

Details

ID
HUMFA_25-3-233
Alternate IDs
HUMFA_25-3-233; 25-3-233
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: 20.4 cm Width: bottom: 24.4 cm; top: 15.4 cm Diameter: bore: 6.4 cm
Credit Line
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance
G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, [shaft]
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 25-2-233).

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