Alabaster model dishes
Part of set of Old Kingdom alabaster model vessels (including 25-11-116 and 25-11-117), one offering jar and twenty-four saucers, a few containing hard deposit of yellowish plaster: b) two type b saucers, [Type IX a].
Illustration: Yes
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_25-11-117b
- Alternate IDs
- 25-11-117b; HUMFA_25-11-117b
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 11/26/1925
- Title
- Alabaster model dishes
- Medium
- Alabaster
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 6010 A, debris on floor of chamber
- 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. 99.
- Remarks
- MFA 25.2769: twenty-one whole and three broken model dishes
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified