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Small limestone model offering jar, [Type XV a (1)]; not hollowed out completely. Illustration: yes.

Details

  • ID
    GEM_16047
  • Department
    Grand Egyptian Museum
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 7753 A, debris of burial chamber
  • Material
    Limestone
  • Dimensions
    7.9 x 3.0 cm; 66 g
  • Credit Line
    Grand Egyptian Museum
  • Journal d'Entree number
    EMC_JE_57000
  • Cairo Special Register number
    EMC_SR_2/1293
  • Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
    HUMFA_29-12-167
  • Period
    Old Kingdom
  • Notes
    Six llimestone model jars originally registered as HUMFA_29-12-167; three accessioned as MFAB_29.2794; two accessioned as GEM_16046 (formerly EMC_JE_56999) and GEM_16047 (formerly EMC_JE_57001); ownership of sixth jar unkown.
  • Remarks
    RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): George Reisner; ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): EMC_JE_57000; EMC_SR_2.1293; HU-MFA_29-12-167

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 7753

    • 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Unpublished Documents 1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. 97.