Alabaster model jar with handle
Alabaster dummy jar with handle, [Type XIV b]; bored, rubbed.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_12-11-6
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_12-11-6; 12-11-6
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5 - Dynasty 6
- Entry Date
- 11/05/1912
- Title
- Alabaster model jar with handle
- Medium
- Alabaster
- Dimensions
- Height: 6.2 cm Diameter: 6.5 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 2360 A
- Bibliography
- Markowitz, Yvonne J., Joyce L. Haynes, 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. 35b. 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. 96.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified