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Alabaster model jar

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7560

[One of] two alabaster model jars, [Type XV c (1)]; fragment of rim broken off. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    GEM_924
  • Department
    Grand Egyptian Museum
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 7560 B, chamber
  • Material
    Alabaster
  • Dimensions
    Height: 6.1 - 6.2 cm Diameter: max: 3.9 - 4.2 cm; rim: 3.6 - 3.8 cm; base: 1.7 - 1.8 cm
  • Credit Line
    Grand Egyptian Museum
  • Journal d'Entree number
    EMC_JE_67578
  • Cairo Special Register number
    EMC_SR_2/1155
  • Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
    HUMFA_36-12-26
  • Date of Register Entry
    01/01/1937
  • Notes
    Two alabaster jars originally registered as HUMFA_36-12-26; now in the collection of the Grand Egyptian Museum, GEM_924 and GEM_925.

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 7560

    • 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Unpublished Documents 4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. 97, fig. 143.