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Alabaster model jar

Small alabaster model offering jar, [Type XVI b]. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    GEM_16043
  • Department
    Grand Egyptian Museum
  • Classification
    Tomb equipment-Models
  • Findspot
    Pit G 7070 B, disturbed debris of chamber
  • Material
    Alabaster
  • Dimensions
    Height: 7 cm Diameter: 3.1 cm; mouth: 2.2 cm; base: 2.1 cm Weight: 101 g
  • Credit Line
    Grand Egyptian Museum
  • Cairo Special Register number
    EMC_SR_2/1289
  • Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
    HUMFA_29-10-7
  • Journal d'Entree number
    EMC_JE_56995
  • Period
    Old Kingdom
  • Date of Register Entry
    10/27/1929

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 7070

    • Site Name Eastern Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 3

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. 98, fig. 144.