Alabaster model dish
Alabaster model dish, [Type X a]; first bored with cylindrical copper borer about 3 cm in diameter and then rubbed down by stone.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_13-11-8
- Alternate IDs
- 13-11-8; HUMFA_13-11-8
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Entry Date
- 11/01/1913
- Title
- Alabaster model dish
- Medium
- Alabaster
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 8.4 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. 463. 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.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified