Alabaster model dish
[Alabaster (somewhat crystalline, various qualities)] model [saucer] (cf. 24-12-545), [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_25-3-217
- Alternate IDs
- 25-3-217; HUMFA_25-3-217
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 03/05/1925
- Title
- Alabaster model dish
- Medium
- [Alabaster]
- Dimensions
- Height: 1.7 cm Diameter: 5.2 cm; base: 3.45 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