Quartzite model bottle from an Opening of the Mouth set
[Quartzite] model [bottle], [Type XV c (2)].
Illustration: Yes
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_12-12-415
- Alternate IDs
- 12-12-415; HUMFA_12-12-415
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6, reign of Pepy II
- Entry Date
- 12/31/1912
- Title
- Quartzite model bottle from an Opening of the Mouth set
- Medium
- [Quartzite]
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 2381 A, [chamber] (202) (found in 12-12-361)
- Bibliography
- D'Auria, Sue, Peter Lacovara, and Catharine H. Roehrig. Mummies & Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1988, pp. 80-81, cat. 11. 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. 97, fig. 143. Roth, Ann Macy. "Fingers, Stars, and the 'Opening of the Mouth': the Nature and Function of the nTrwj-blades." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 79 (1993), p. 58, note 8.
- Remarks
- This object found "in 12-12-361" (copper spouted bowl) according to that record.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
