Alabaster bowl
Alabaster bowl, [Type X a]; scratches left by stone smoother visible on inside.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:4
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_13-11-59
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_13-11-59; 13-11-59
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Khafre
- Entry Date
- 11/15/1913
- Title
- Alabaster bowl
- Medium
- Alabaster
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 39.7 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4240 A, shaft
- Bibliography
- Markowitz, Yvonne J., Joyce L. Haynes, and Rita E. Freed. Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids: Highlights from the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expedition. Boston: MFA Publications, 2002, pp. 66-67, cat. 15c. Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, pp. 466-467, fig. 282. 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