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Pottery model dishes

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4720

Thirty-eight pottery model dishes, [Type D LXXIX a], and many odd fragments; ordinary brown ware. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_14-3-50
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 4720 A
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 1.7 - 2.5 cm Diameter: 5.7 - 7.2 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession numbers: 14.1473.1–14.1473.9
  • Period
    Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
  • Date of Register Entry
    03/08/1914 - 03/13/1914
  • Remarks
    Nine of thirty-eight model dishes accessioned as MFA 14.1473.1–MFA 14.1473.9
  • Problems/Questions
    MFA accession numbers verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 4720

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 3

Full Bibliography

  • Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, pp. 511-512, fig. 314.

    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.