Findspot: Western Cemetery, Pit G 2200 (= G 5080) B, debris of [shaft], [originally from G 2156]

Limestone

Expedition Measurements: Width: 48 cm Length: 150 cm Thickness: 15 cm

Description: Limestone slab with cornice; [sunk relief inscription, translation: a gift which the king and Anubis, foremost of the divine booth, give, and a gift which Osiris, foremost of Busiris, gives, that invocation offerings might go forth for him on the new year’s festival, the festival of Thoth, the first of the year festival, the wag-festival, the festival of Sokar, the great flame festival, the procession of Min festival, the first of the month festival, the first of the half-month festival, and every festival of <every> day for the great one of the Tens of Upper Egypt, Kaninisut (II)]; broken into two pieces. Illustration: Yes with hieroglyphs

Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition

Selected Published References:
Junker, Hermann. Gîza 12. Schlußband mit Zusammenfassungen und Gesamt-Verzeichnissen von Band 1-12. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 75, Abhandlung 2. Vienna: Rudolph M. Rohrer, 1955, p. 148, fig. 17. Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L.B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings 3: Memphis (Abû Rawâsh to Dahshûr). Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1931. 2nd edition. 3: Memphis, Part 1 (Abû Rawâsh to Abûsîr), revised and augmented by Jaromír Málek. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1974, p. 80. Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, pp. 447, 448, fig. 270.