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Alabaster model bowls and dishes

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Object register page:

Twenty-nine alabaster model [bowls and saucers] varying between sixteen types and eleven others varying between last four types drawn, [three Type IX a], (ten of these are wrongly entered here and should be grouped with 25-12-257 and 25-12-258 coming from scattered debris on floor). Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_25-12-253
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 6040 B, chamber
  • Material
    Alabaster
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession number: 25.2907
  • Date of Register Entry
    12/19/1925
  • Remarks
    Twenty-eight of twenty-nine alabaster models bowl/dishes accessioned as MFA 25.2907.
  • Problems/Questions
    MFA accession number verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 6040

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

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. 99.