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Object register entry:
Field number: 34-12-8a
Field number: 34-12-8a
Entry date(s): 12/12/1934
Object owner details: MFA
Fragment of mud sealing with seal impressions
Findspot: Western Cemetery, Pit G 1457 A, debris of burial chamber
Mud
Expedition Measurements: Width: 4.3 cm
Length: 3.9 cm
Thickness: 2.2 cm
Description: [One of] three inscribed fragments of mud sealings: a) soft mud with indistinct impression on back, perhaps jar seal; three or four impressions of Horus name of Menkaure on face.
Illustration: Yes with hieroglyphs.
Illustration scale: 2:1
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Selected Published References:
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. 50 (misidentified as 34-12-28), fig. 50.
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. 50 (misidentified as 34-12-28), fig. 50.
