Alabaster model dishes
Sixty-seven small alabaster offering saucers, two main types [Type IX a and Type X a, and some Type X b]; some very fine translucent also veined and opaque, bored, rubbed.
Illustration: Yes
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_12-11-48
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_12-11-48; 12-11-48
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5
- Entry Date
- 11/15/1912
- Title
- Alabaster model dishes
- Medium
- Alabaster
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 4.2 - 6.2 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 2353 B, [chamber]
- 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. 99, 100. Simpson, William Kelly. Mastabas of the Western Cemetery, Part 1: Sekhemka (G 1029); Tjetu I (G 2001); Iasen (G 2196); Penmeru (G 2197); Hagy, Nefertjentet, and Herunefer (G 2352/53); Djaty, Tjetu II, and Nimesti (G 2337X, 2343, 2366). Giza Mastabas 4. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1980, p. 37, pl. LXc.
- Remarks
- Sixty-seven alabaster model dishes accessioned as MFA 13.3087–MFA 13.3090, MFA 13.3111–MFA 13.3118, and MFA 13.3339–MFA 13.3393.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession numbers verified
