Limestone model jar
Limestone model [cylinder] jar (cf. 25-1-442), [Type I d], (one of set of model vessels, seventeen jars and fifty plus saucers, including 25-2-1101 through 25-2-1151, 25-2-1157, saucers vary between six types); [jars and saucers painted yellow, crudely cut in very soft limestone with tube borers, most later smoothed (?) with pebble].
Illustration: No.
Supplementary illustration: Yes.
Supplementary illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_25-2-1113
- Alternate IDs
- 25-2-1113; HUMFA_25-2-1113
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 02/28/1925
- Title
- Limestone model jar
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height: 6.5 cm Diameter: mouth: 3.6 cm; base: 2.6 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 7710 B
- 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. 93.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified