Alabaster model dish
[One of] nine alabaster model saucers: 1) [Type IX b]. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:1
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- ID
- HUMFA_28-5-179 (1)
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- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Classification
- Vessels
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- Findspot
- Pit G 7550 B, debris of chamber
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- Material
- Alabaster
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- Dimensions
- Height: 1.9 cm Diameter: 6.7 cm Thickness: .6 cm
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- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Object Ownership Information
- MFA accession number: 28.1511
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- Date of Register Entry
- 05/18/1928
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- Remarks
- Six complete model dishes (labeled 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7) + fragments of two others (labeled 8, 9) + 3 unmarked fragments accessioned as MFA 28.1511; one model dish (labeled 5) not MFA owned.
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- Site Name Eastern Cemetery
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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, fig, 145.