Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7753 , G 7774
Three small limestone [model] offering [jars], [Type XV a (1)]; not hollowed out completely; [one was broken and mended?], neck missing on another. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2
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- ID
- MFAB_29.2794
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- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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- Classification
- Vessels
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- Findspot
- Pit G 7753 A, debris of burial chamber
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- Material
- Limestone
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- Dimensions
- Height: 7.8 cm Diameter: 3 cm; inner rim: 1.3 cm; base: 2.3 cm
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- Credit Line
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
- HUMFA_29-12-167
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- Object Ownership Information
- MFA accession number: 29.2794
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- Date of Register Entry
- 12/14/1929
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- Notes
- Six limestone model jars originally registered as HUMFA_29-12-167; four intact, one broken and mended, and one with neck missing. Three accessioned as MFAB_29.2794 (includes the jar with neck missing, may or may not include the broken and mended jar); two accessioned as GEM_16046 (formerly EMC_JE_56999) and GEM_16047 (formerly EMC_JE_57001). Ownership of sixth jar is unkown.
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- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
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- Site Name Eastern Cemetery
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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.
ID: HUMFA_A6556_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7753 , G 7774
Description: Limestone model vessels: top row: [G 7753 A] 29-12-166 (ten of sixty-one model dishes); second row: [G 7753 A] 29-12-166 (ten of sixty-one model dishes); third row: [G 7753 A] 29-12-167 (six model jars, three = MFA 29.2794), 29-12-168 (two model jars, one = MFA 29.2795), 29-12-166 (eight of sixty-one model dishes); bottom row: [G 7774] 30-12-99 (model jar), 30-12-100 (model jar), 30-12-97 (model jar), 30-12-96 (model jar), 30-12-102 (model offering table), 30-12-98 (model jar), 30-12-101 (model jar), 29-12-322 (= MFA 29.2831)
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