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Alabaster [(somewhat crystalline, various qualities)] model [saucer] (cf. 25-1-458), [Type X b], (one of set of model vessels, two jars and forty-two saucers, 25-3-166 through 25-3-179, 25-3-192 through 25-3-221, saucers vary between seven types).
Illustration: No.
Supplementary illustration: Yes.
Supplementary illustration scale: 1:2

Details

ID
HUMFA_25-3-172
Alternate IDs
25-3-172; HUMFA_25-3-172
Department
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification
Vessels
Entry Date
03/04/1925
Title
Alabaster model dish
Medium
Alabaster
Dimensions
Height: 2.3 cm Diameter: 5.1 cm
Credit Line
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance
Pit G 7710 A, tomb chamber S, outside coffin
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.
Problems/Questions
MFA accession number verified

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Photos 3

Unpublished Documents 2