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Pottery model dishes

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4220

Eight pottery model dishes, [Type D LXXIX a], and fragments of about four others; ordinary brown ware. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:1

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_14-4-33
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 4220 A, burial chamber
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 1.3 - 1.8 cm Diameter: 5.3 - 5.8 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession numbers: 14.1665.1, 14.1665.2
  • Period
    Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
  • Date of Register Entry
    04/22/1914
  • Remarks
    Two of eight pottery model dishes accessioned as MFA 14.1665.1, MFA 14.1665.2
  • Problems/Questions
    MFA accession numbers verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 4220

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 3

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, fig. 127.