Digital Giza | Diorite bowl

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 1024

Thin translucent diorite (or gneiss) bowl with five in-turned rim sections, [Type X e]; broken, repaired.

ID

HM_6-19784
Department

Hearst Museum, Berkeley
Classification

Vessels
Findspot

Mastaba G 1024, in debris behind offering chamber.
Material

Diorite or Gneiss
Dimensions

20 cm (7 7/8 in)
Credit Line

Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Hearst Egyptian Expedition
Object Ownership Information

Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Period

Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4 or earlier
Date of Register Entry

1903–1904
Object owned by

Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology

Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, pp. 310-311, cat. 99.

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. 101, fig. 147.

Diorite bowl