Skip to main content

Limestone mold with design of bird

Mirador viewer

2 of 4 • Limestone molds (birds in sunk relief): top row: [G 7600 X] 29-4-94 (= MFA 31.783a-b), 29-4-97, [G 7652 A IV] 29-4-299a (= MFA 31.784a-b), [G 7940 B] 30-12-82b; bottom row: [G 7600 X] 29-4-96 (= MFA 31.783a-b), 29-4-95, [G 7652 A IV] 29-4-299b (= MFA 31.784a-b), [G 7940 B] 30-12-82a
1
Limestone molds (birds in sunk relief): top row: [G 7600 X] 29-4-94 (= MFA 31.783a-b), 29-4-97, [G 7652 A IV] 29-4-299a (= MFA 31.784a-b), [G 7940 B] 30-12-82b; bottom row: [G 7600 X] 29-4-96 (= MFA 31.783a-b), 29-4-95, [G 7652 A IV] 29-4-299b (= MFA 31.784a-b), [G 7940 B] 30-12-82a
3
4

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7600 X, G 7652, G 7940

One of two symmetrical limestone molds of crested bird (Old Kingdom); fits with EMC_JE_57016. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:1

Details

  • ID
    EMC_JE_57015
  • Department
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Classification
    Tools & equipment-Molds
  • Findspot
    Pit G 7940 B, debris of pit itself
  • Material
    Limestone
  • Dimensions
    Width: 9.5 cm Length: 13 cm Thickness: a) 3.3 cm; b) 3.7 cm
  • Credit Line
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
    HUMFA_30-12-82
  • Cairo Special Register number
    EMC_SR_1/13543
  • Cairo Special Register number
    EMC_SR_7/22525
  • Object Ownership Information
    In the collection of: Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Date of Register Entry
    12/15/1930
  • Object owned by
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Notes
    Two fitting molds originally registered as HUMFA_30-12-82; now in collection of Egyptian Museum, Cairo (EMC_JE_57015 and EMC_JE_57016). A large portion of Special Register section 7 (volumes 13-16) was originally misnumbered, with the object numbers following in sequence from section 1 volume 4; these numbers have thus been given EMC_SR_1 prefixes, despite being recorded in section 7. Hence this object is EMC_SR_1/13453. The SR numbering was then ammended to the proper section 7 sequence, and it was given number EMC_SR_7/22525.

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 7940

    • Site Name Eastern Cemetery

Institutions 1