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Unfinished limestone model vessel

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: G 7754

Piece of worked limestone, [unfinished model dish] (cf. 29-12-93, like 29-12-71 and 29-12-72, but not hollowed out), [Type X b]. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:1

Details

  • ID
    GEM_16056
  • Department
    Grand Egyptian Museum
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 7754 B, debris of room
  • Material
    Limestone
  • Dimensions
    2.9 x 4.2 cm
  • Credit Line
    Grand Egyptian Museum
  • Journal d'Entree number
    EMC_JE_57009
  • Cairo Special Register number
    EMC_SR_2/1302
  • Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
    HUMFA_29-12-73
  • Period
    Old Kingdom
  • Notes
    Six unfinished limestone model dishes originally registered as HUMFA_29-12-73; three are in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFAB_29.2773), and three are in the collection of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM_16053, formerly EMC_JE_57006; GEM_16056, formerly EMC_JE_57009; and GEM_16057, formerly EMC_JE_57010).
  • Remarks
    RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): George Reisner; ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): EMC_JE_57009; EMC_SR_2.1302; HU-MFA_29-12-73

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 7754

    • Site Name Eastern Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 1

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.