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Limestone model jar

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7753 , G 7774

Small limestone [model] offering [jar], [Type XV a (1)]. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    MFAB_29.2795
  • Department
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 7753 A, debris of burial chamber
  • Material
    Limestone
  • Dimensions
    Height: 6 cm Diameter: 3 cm; inner rim: 1.2 cm; base: 1.8 cm
  • Credit Line
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
    HUMFA_29-12-168
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession number: 29.2795
  • Date of Register Entry
    12/14/1929
  • Notes
    Two model jars originally registered as HUMFA_29-12-168; one in collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFAB_29.2795), one in collection of Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM_16048, formerly EMC_JE_57001).
  • Remarks
    One limestone model jar accessioned as MFA 29.2795
  • Problems/Questions
    MFA accession number verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 7753

    • Site Name Eastern Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 1

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. 97, fig. 143.