Alabaster model food offerings
Four alabaster models, cylinders.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:1
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_14-2-46
- Alternate IDs
- 14-2-46; HUMFA_14-2-46
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Tomb equipment-Models
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5, reign of Djedkare Isesi
- Entry Date
- 02/27/1914 - 03/01/1914
- Title
- Alabaster model food offerings
- Medium
- Alabaster
- Dimensions
- Height: 2.9 - 3 cm Diameter: 1.6 - 2.2 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4733 E
- 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. 93 (incorrectly identified as alabaster model cylinder jars).
- Remarks
- One of four alabaster model food offerings accessioned as MFA 21.2829.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified