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Amulets (lot a) from Menkaure pyramid temple, communal grave in room J1 (= pillared hall 27), all from near feet of mummy 56: top row: 07-2-55 (= MFA 11.1099, sow), 07-2-58 (Bes); bottom row: 07-2-53 (udjat), 07-2-54 (= MFA 11.1101, Sekhmet), 07-2-57 (= MFA 11.1098, Bes), 07-2-56 (= MFA 11.1100, fragment of Isis and Horus)

Details

ID
HUMFA_C406_NS
Alternate IDs
HUMFAC406NS; HUMFA_C406_NS; C406; C406_NS
Department
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Date
05/10/1907
Subjects
Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure pyramid temple
Media View
Object(s) photograph
Problems/Questions
VERIFIED: mounted print archive card identifies these as 07-2-53 to 58 (no registration records from this date); specific identifications based on publication p. 260; MFA accession numbers verified; re: "lot a" here, and initials and lots elsewhere, apparently represent groups of object and "initials" of Egyptian workers who found these batches of objects

Tombs and Monuments 1

Finds 4

Modern People 1