Fragments of alabaster bowl
Two large fragments of one alabaster bowl, [Type IX a], consisting of five mended fragments (three and two fragments respectively); cylinder bored (four more pieces found in chamber 10/22).
Illustration: No
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_13-10-14
- Alternate IDs
- 13-10-14; HUMFA_13-10-14
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom
- Entry Date
- 10/21/1913
- Title
- Fragments of alabaster bowl
- Medium
- Alabaster
- Dimensions
- Height: ca 5 cm Diameter: mouth: 15 cm; base: ca 6.4 cm (inside)
- 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. 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. 98.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified