Alabaster model basin
Alabaster model flat basin with rounded bottom and rounded rim, [Type IX a].
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:1
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_27-5-90
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_27-5-90; 27-5-90
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 05/25/1927
- Title
- Alabaster model basin
- Medium
- Alabaster
- Dimensions
- Height: 1.5 cm Diameter: 4.8 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 7440 Z [= G 7442], on floor beside sarcophagus
- 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. 98 (also incorrectly listed among Type X b, p. 100).
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified