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When WISE UP shut down his google image account he asked people to grab them all, so i did.
This image is from that collection.
Some info...............
Starting in 1902, a joint expedition of Harvard University and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts took over the excavation of Giza. For 23 years they methodically cleared and documented the area. On the 9th of March, 1925, while the leader of the expedition, George Reisner, was back in the US, the staff photographer noticed a patch of plaster where he was expecting limestone. Under the direction of Ahmed Said, Reisner's head rais, they cleared the area and removed the plaster, revealing a deep shaft. They dug down 85 feet before reaching a masonry wall which, when penetrated revealed a jumble of grave goods including a white alabaster sarcophagus, gold encased rods used to frame a canopy or tent, gold, wood furniture, and more. Using binoculars and mirrors, Battiscombe Gunn identified an inscription identifying Sneferu. But this, contrary to newspaper reports at the time, only meant that the owner of the tomb had lived during the reign of Sneferu.
Reisner concluded that this represented a secret reburial, possibly because robbers had gotten into the original tomb. By April, he had identified the owner of the tomb as Hetepheres, wife of Sneferu and mother of Khufu. In 1927 they gathered to open the sarcophagus only to find that it was empty.
Bed canopy — (inscribed), gold covered, presented by Snefru, in Cairo Museum Ent. 57711 (restored).
Bed with inlaid footboard— gold covered, in Cairo Museum Ent. 53261 (restored).
Curtain box (inscribed) — gold covered, faience inlaid, presented by Snefru, with King seated on north end, and names and winged disk on south end, in Cairo Museum Ent. 72030 (restored).
Armchair with papyrus — flower decoration, gold covered, in Cairo Museum Ent. 53263 (restored).
Armchair — with inlays of Neith-standards on both faces of back, with hawk standing on palm column on arms (wood perished), gold covered, in Cairo Museum (recreated 2016).
Gold fragments — with deceased seated smelling lotus, probably from lid of small box, in Cairo Museum.
Palanquins (inscribed on back) — gold covered, in Cairo Museum Ent. 52372 (restored).
Remains of tubular leather case — containing two long staves covered with gold ribbed casing and wooden stick with inlaid Min-emblem decoration, in Cairo Museum.
Sarcophagus — alabaster.
Canopic box — alabaster.
(Below)
Chest — with inlaid lid with text and Min-emblem decoration, gold covered, in Cairo Museum. The chest contained a box with eight alabaster ointment jars (inscribed) in stand, and copper toilet-spoon, a box (inscribed), gold covered, containing silver bracelets with butterfly design, and a head-rest, wood, covered with gold and silver (uninscribed).
I will take a guess and say this is a box (inscribed) and what was within it......containing silver bracelets with butterfly design.
I don't have much to say about it but that doesn't look like a box of jewelry.
Anyone got any more info that is not known already or maybe you have seen more info on this elsewhere.
Lets see what ya got.
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This image is from that collection.
Some info...............
Starting in 1902, a joint expedition of Harvard University and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts took over the excavation of Giza. For 23 years they methodically cleared and documented the area. On the 9th of March, 1925, while the leader of the expedition, George Reisner, was back in the US, the staff photographer noticed a patch of plaster where he was expecting limestone. Under the direction of Ahmed Said, Reisner's head rais, they cleared the area and removed the plaster, revealing a deep shaft. They dug down 85 feet before reaching a masonry wall which, when penetrated revealed a jumble of grave goods including a white alabaster sarcophagus, gold encased rods used to frame a canopy or tent, gold, wood furniture, and more. Using binoculars and mirrors, Battiscombe Gunn identified an inscription identifying Sneferu. But this, contrary to newspaper reports at the time, only meant that the owner of the tomb had lived during the reign of Sneferu.
Reisner concluded that this represented a secret reburial, possibly because robbers had gotten into the original tomb. By April, he had identified the owner of the tomb as Hetepheres, wife of Sneferu and mother of Khufu. In 1927 they gathered to open the sarcophagus only to find that it was empty.
Bed canopy — (inscribed), gold covered, presented by Snefru, in Cairo Museum Ent. 57711 (restored).
Bed with inlaid footboard— gold covered, in Cairo Museum Ent. 53261 (restored).
Curtain box (inscribed) — gold covered, faience inlaid, presented by Snefru, with King seated on north end, and names and winged disk on south end, in Cairo Museum Ent. 72030 (restored).
Armchair with papyrus — flower decoration, gold covered, in Cairo Museum Ent. 53263 (restored).
Armchair — with inlays of Neith-standards on both faces of back, with hawk standing on palm column on arms (wood perished), gold covered, in Cairo Museum (recreated 2016).
Gold fragments — with deceased seated smelling lotus, probably from lid of small box, in Cairo Museum.
Palanquins (inscribed on back) — gold covered, in Cairo Museum Ent. 52372 (restored).
Remains of tubular leather case — containing two long staves covered with gold ribbed casing and wooden stick with inlaid Min-emblem decoration, in Cairo Museum.
Sarcophagus — alabaster.
Canopic box — alabaster.
(Below)
Chest — with inlaid lid with text and Min-emblem decoration, gold covered, in Cairo Museum. The chest contained a box with eight alabaster ointment jars (inscribed) in stand, and copper toilet-spoon, a box (inscribed), gold covered, containing silver bracelets with butterfly design, and a head-rest, wood, covered with gold and silver (uninscribed).
I will take a guess and say this is a box (inscribed) and what was within it......containing silver bracelets with butterfly design.
I don't have much to say about it but that doesn't look like a box of jewelry.
Anyone got any more info that is not known already or maybe you have seen more info on this elsewhere.
Lets see what ya got.
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