Digital Giza | Alabaster model dishes

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4140

Six alabaster model dishes, [Type X b].
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2

ID: HUMFA_13-11-5
Alternate IDs: 13-11-5; HUMFA_13-11-5
Department: Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification: Vessels
Period: Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
Entry Date: 11/02/1913
Title: Alabaster model dishes
Medium: Alabaster
Dimensions: Diameter: 6.4 - 8.5 cm
Credit Line: Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance: Pit G 4140 A
Bibliography: Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 461, fig. 279, p. 462. 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. 100.
Remarks: Five of six alabaster model dishes accessioned as MFA 13.5618; one of six alabaster model dishes accessioned as MFA 21.2897.
Problems/Questions: MFA accession numbers verified

Alabaster model dishes