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Alabaster model cups

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2200 = G 5080

Eight complete alabaster model offering cups, one nearly complete (five fragments mended) and fragment of another, [Type X b], [(two mended cups composed of fragments from 33-2-108 + 33-2-98), one additional small fragment part of mended cup composed of fragments from 33-2-103 + 33-2-108 + 33-2-150]. Illustration: No

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_33-2-108
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 2200 (= G 5080) B, debris of chamber
  • Material
    Alabaster
  • Dimensions
    Height: 3.9 - 4.5 cm Diameter: 5.3 - 6.8 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession number: 33.1078, 33.1080
  • Date of Register Entry
    02/04/1933
  • Remarks
    MFA 33.1080 = eight complete model cups (33-2-108) and two mended model cups (33-2-108 + 33-2-98). MFA 33.1078 = twelve model cups (33-2-103), one of which is mended model cup (33-2-103 + 33-2-108 + 33-2-150); fragment labeled 33-2-108 in this mended model cup not included in original OR entry for this registration number.

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 5080

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 2

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. 100.