Digital Giza | Alabaster model jar

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4811+4812, G 1208, G 1226, G 2381, G 1158

One alabaster model cylinder jar, [Type I d]. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

ID

HUMFA_35-11-69
Department

Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification

Vessels
Findspot

G 4811+4812: pit G 4811 B, chamber
Material

Alabaster
Dimensions

Height: 5.2 cm Diameter: 3.1 cm
Credit Line

Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Object Ownership Information

MFA
Date of Register Entry

11/21/1935
Remarks

G 4811 B burial chamber was first excavated (see diary Vol.09.p.055) and photographed (C6964, C6971, C6972, C6988) in 1915; reexcavated (see diary Vol.27.p.176) and objects registered in 1935.

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. 93.

Alabaster model jar