Alabaster model dishes
Forty-five rough alabaster model saucers, [Type IX a]; many only rough disks with beginning of bore hole on one side.
Illustration: Yes
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_12-12-593
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_12-12-593; 12-12-593
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 12/13/1912
- Title
- Alabaster model dishes
- Medium
- Alabaster
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 3.8 - 7 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 2387 A (main shaft of G 2385)
- Bibliography
- 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. 99.
- Remarks
- G 2387 A (main shaft of G 2385) first excavated in 1912 and reexcavated in 1935.