Alabaster offering table
Small alabaster offering table, [Type XII b]; irregular hole drilled, roughly bored cavity not in center; stand broken off, in two pieces [(flat circular top and conical stand)].
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:1
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_27-5-23
- Alternate IDs
- 27-5-23; HUMFA_27-5-23
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Tomb equipment-Offering tables and basins
- Entry Date
- 05/25/1927
- Title
- Alabaster offering table
- Medium
- Alabaster
- Dimensions
- Height: stand: 3.1 cm Diameter: table: 16.35 cm; top of stand: 3 cm; bottom of stand: 4.9 cm; hole: 2.7 cm Thickness: table: 1.2 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 7440 Z [= G 7442], on floor beside sarcophagus
- Bibliography
- Allen, Susan. "Miniature and Model Vessels in Ancient Egypt." In Miroslav Bárta, ed. The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology. Proceedings of the Conference held in Prague, May 31-June 4, 2004. Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2006, p. 20, fig. 1. 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. 101.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
