Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4340
A number of pottery offering dishes: (1) thirty-eight (shallow like 13-10-23), [Type D LXXIX a], some whole and some broken; (2) deeper and of narrow width, [Type D LXXIX b] [(quantity unspecified)]; (3) miscellaneous fragments of about twenty-six others of various forms. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:1
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- ID
- HUMFA_13-10-53
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- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Classification
- Vessels
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- Findspot
- Pit G 4340 A, debris in shaft
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- Material
- Pottery
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- Dimensions
- Diameter: 1) ca 8.5 cm
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- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Object Ownership Information
- MFA accession numbers: 20.1912, 20.1913
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- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
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- Date of Register Entry
- 10/21/1913
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- Remarks
- Two pottery model dishes accessioned as MFA 20.1912, 20.1913; additional forty-three pottery model dishes located in MFA inventory (unaccessioned).
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- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession numbers verified
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
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Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 472, fig. 285, p. 474.
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. 87, fig. 127.
