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Alabaster model dish

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2384, G 2385, G 2374, G 2382, G 2360, G 2353

Poor alabaster offering saucer, [Type X b]; bored, rubbed; rough work. Illustration: No

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_12-12-108
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 2385 A (assumed to be associated with mastaba G 2374), debris
  • Material
    Alabaster
  • Dimensions
    Diameter: 7.4 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA
  • Date of Register Entry
    12/11/1912
  • Remarks
    G 2385 A first excavated in 1912 and reexcavated in 1935.

Tombs and Monuments 2

  • G 2374

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

  • G 2385

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 1

Full Bibliography

  • Reisner, George Andrew, 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.