Alabaster model jars
Two alabaster model [cylinder jars], [Type I d].
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_15-11-51
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_15-11-51; 15-11-51; GEM_8038; 8038; EMC_JE_46575; JE_46575
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 11/23/1915
- Title
- Alabaster model jars
- Medium
- Alabaster
- Dimensions
- Height: 3.9 - 4.5 cm Diameter: 2.3 - 2.6 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4610 A, chamber
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 520, fig. 323. 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.
- Notes
- Two model jars originally registered as HUMFA_15-11-51. One is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (unaccessioned); one is in the collection of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM_8038, formerly Cairo Museum EMC_JE_46575).