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Alabaster model jar

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7111, G 7710

Alabaster model [jar] (cf. 25-1-452), [Type XV a (1)], (one of set of model vessels, seventeen jars, two basins, sixty model saucers, including 25-1-439 through 25-1-517, saucers vary between ten types, rarely symmetrical). Illustration: No. Supplementary illustration: Yes. Supplementary illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_25-1-454
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 7111 C, tomb chamber
  • Material
    Alabaster
  • Dimensions
    Height: 5.2 cm Diameter: mouth: 2.7 cm; shoulder: 3.4 cm; base: 2.2 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession number: 25.1651
  • Date of Register Entry
    01/09/1925
  • Problems/Questions
    MFA accession number verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 7111

    • 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Unpublished Documents 1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. 97.

    Simpson, William Kelly. The Mastabas of Kawab, Khafkhufu I and II. Giza Mastabas 3. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1978, p. 29, pl. XLVI, fig. 55.