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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.

Details

  • 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

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 1024

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Full Bibliography

  • 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.

Institutions 1