Digital Giza | Copper model basin

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2381

Copper model bowl (belongs with table 12-12-273). Illustration: No

ID

HUMFA_12-12-276
Department

Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification

Vessels
Findspot

Pit G 2381 A, [chamber] (62) (found on table 12-12-273)
Material

Copper
Credit Line

Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Object Ownership Information

MFA accession number: 13.2938c
Period

Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6, reign of Pepy II
Date of Register Entry

12/31/1912
Remarks

On model table 59 (12-12-273 = MFA 13.2938a) were model jar 60 (12-12-274 = MFA 13.2938e) and six model basins 61-66 (12-12-275, 12-12-276, 12-12-277, 12-12-278, 12-12-279, 12-12-280; three of these six basins accessioned as MFA 13.2938b, MFA 13.2938c, MFA 13.2938d; two of these six basins MFA owned unaccessioned).

Reisner, George A. "A Family of Builders of the Sixth Dynasty, about 2600 B.C." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 11, No. 66 (November 1913), p. 61, fig. 16.

Copper model basin