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Alabaster bowl

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 1407, G 7330-7340

Pinkish [to pale yellow] alabaster bowl, [Type IX a]; in three pieces, small fragment in bottom missing. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_34-6-14
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    G 7330-7340: pit G 7330 A, debris of pit
  • Material
    Alabaster
  • Dimensions
    Height: 7 cm Diameter: 25.6 cm Thickness: 1 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession number: 47.1671
  • Date of Register Entry
    06/24/1934
  • Problems/Questions
    MFA accession number verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

Published Documents 1

Unpublished Documents 3

Full Bibliography

  • Reisner, George A. "Report on the Egyptian Expedition during 1934-35." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 33, No. 199 (October 1935), p. 75, fig. 11.

    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. 98, fig. 145.