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Alabaster model dish

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Object register page:

Part of set of Old Kingdom alabaster model vessels (including 25-11-116 and 25-11-117), one offering jar and twenty-four saucers, a few containing hard deposit of yellowish plaster: d) one type d saucer, [Type X b]. Illustration: Yes

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_25-11-117d
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 6010 A, debris on floor of chamber
  • Material
    Alabaster
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession number: 25.2769
  • Date of Register Entry
    11/26/1925
  • Remarks
    MFA 25.2769: twenty-one whole and three broken model dishes
  • Problems/Questions
    MFA accession number verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 6010

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 1

Full Bibliography

  • 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. 100.