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Fragments of alabaster bowl

Object register page:

Three fragments of [large] shallow alabaster [bowl], [Type X c]. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2. Additional illustration: Yes. Additional illustration scales: 1:2, 1:5

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_24-11-497
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 7131
  • Material
    Alabaster
  • Dimensions
    Height: ca 1.9 cm; [reconstructed: 7.8 cm] Diameter: ca 18 cm; [original: 40.4 cm]
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession number: 24.2503
  • Period
    Ptolemaic Period
  • Date of Register Entry
    11/13/1924
  • Problems/Questions
    MFA accession number verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 7131

    • Site Name Eastern Cemetery

Published Documents 1

Unpublished Documents 1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. 101.

    Simpson, William Kelly. The Mastabas of Kawab, Khafkhufu I and II. Giza Mastabas 3. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1978, p. 32.