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Alabaster model bowl, [Type X a].
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:1

Details

ID
HUMFA_27-5-29
Alternate IDs
27-5-29; HUMFA_27-5-29
Department
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification
Vessels
Entry Date
05/25/1927
Title
Alabaster model bowl
Medium
Alabaster
Dimensions
Height: 3.3 cm Diameter: 4.5 cm x 4.4 cm; base: 2 cm Depth: 1.4 cm
Credit Line
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance
Pit G 7440 Z [= G 7442], on floor beside sarcophagus
Bibliography
Markowitz, Yvonne J., Joyce L. Haynes, and Rita E. Freed. Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids: Highlights from the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expedition. Boston: MFA Publications, 2002, p. 95, cat. 35e. 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

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