Limestone model jar
White limestone dummy [jar], [Type XV a (1)]; hollow gouged out with pointed chisel, outside apparently chisel dressed and rubbed smoothed.
Illustration: Yes
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_12-10-26
- Alternate IDs
- 12-10-26; HUMFA_12-10-26
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5 ?
- Entry Date
- 10/25/1912
- Title
- Limestone model jar
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height: 15 cm Diameter: 7.5 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 2330 (= G 5380) A, debris in bottom of shaft
- 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. 97, fig. 143.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified