Alabaster model basin
Alabaster model basin, [Type X b]; cylinder and stone bored, finished by hand polishing; perfect.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:1
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_13-10-2
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_13-10-2; 13-10-2
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom
- Entry Date
- 10/21/1913
- Title
- Alabaster model basin
- Medium
- Alabaster
- Dimensions
- Height: 6 cm Diameter: mouth: 6.7 cm; base: 4.3 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4340 A, chamber, floor sand
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 472, fig. 285, p. 473. 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. p. 100.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified