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Alabaster jar

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2120

Complete alabaster jar with attached ring stand and lid, [Type XIV a]. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    EMC_JE_60549
  • Department
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 2120 A, debris of pit itself
  • Material
    Alabaster
  • Dimensions
    Height: 29.8 cm Diameter: 16.8 cm
  • Credit Line
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
    HUMFA_33-1-7
  • Cairo Special Register number
    EMC_SR_2/2546
  • Date of Register Entry
    01/04/1933
  • Object owned by
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 2120

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 4

Full Bibliography

  • Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 426, fig. 245, p. 429.

    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. 96 (misidentified as 33-1-77).

Institutions 1