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Twenty-nine alabaster model [bowls and saucers] varying between sixteen types and eleven others varying between last four types drawn, [three Type IX a], (ten of these are wrongly entered here and should be grouped with 25-12-257 and 25-12-258 coming from scattered debris on floor).
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

ID
HUMFA_25-12-253
Alternate IDs
HUMFA_25-12-253; 25-12-253
Department
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification
Vessels
Entry Date
12/19/1925
Title
Alabaster model bowls and dishes
Medium
Alabaster
Credit Line
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance
Pit G 6040 B, 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
Twenty-eight of twenty-nine alabaster models bowl/dishes accessioned as MFA 25.2907.
Problems/Questions
MFA accession number verified

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