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Alabaster model dish

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7550, G 7524

[One of] nine alabaster model saucers: 5) flat base, [Type X c]. Illustration: No

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_28-5-179 (5)
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 7550 B, debris of chamber
  • Material
    Alabaster
  • Dimensions
    Height: 1.4 cm Diameter: 5.2 cm; base: 2 cm Thickness: .4 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Date of Register Entry
    05/18/1928
  • Remarks
    Six complete model dishes (labeled 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7) + fragments of two others (labeled 8, 9) + 3 unmarked fragments accessioned as MFA 28.1511; one model dish (labeled 5) not MFA owned.

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 7550

    • Site Name Eastern Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 4

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, p. 101 (misidentified as 25-5-179).