Alabaster model basin
Roughly made alabaster model basin with flat bottom and flattened rim, [Type X a].
Illustration: No
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_27-5-54
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_27-5-54; 27-5-54
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 05/25/1927
- Title
- Alabaster model basin
- Medium
- Alabaster
- Dimensions
- Height: 2 cm Diameter: 5.1 cm; base: 2.1 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. 100.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
