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Limestone model vessel

Crudely made limestone saucer (cf. 29-12-72), [Type X b].

Details

  • ID
    GEM_16055
  • Department
    Grand Egyptian Museum
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 7754 B, in coffin in room
  • Material
    Limestone
  • Dimensions
    3.0 x 5.3 cm
  • Credit Line
    Grand Egyptian Museum
  • Journal d'Entree number
    EMC_JE_57007
  • Cairo Special Register number
    EMC_SR_2/1301
  • Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
    HUMFA_29-12-92
  • Period
    Old Kingdom
  • Notes
    Ten limestone model vessels originally registered as HUMFA_29-12-92; eight are in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFAB_29.2778); two are in the collection of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM_16054, formerly EMC_JE_57008; and GEM_16055, formerly EMC_JE_57007).
  • Remarks
    RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): George Reisner; ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): EMC_JE_57007; EMC_SR_2.1301; HU-MFA_29-12-92

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 7754

    • 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Unpublished Documents 1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. 100.