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Clear alabaster bowl, [Type X c]; smoothed by rubbing; in fragments, incomplete.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

ID
HUMFA_13-11-97
Alternate IDs
HUMFA_13-11-97; 13-11-97
Department
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification
Vessels
Entry Date
11/24/1913, 11/25/1913
Title
Fragmentary alabaster bowl
Medium
Alabaster
Dimensions
Length: 8.6 cm Diameter: 33 cm; base: 9 cm
Credit Line
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance
Pit G 4440 A (one fragment found in street E of G 4440 A)
Bibliography
Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, pp. 476-477, fig. 287. 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. 101.
Problems/Questions
MFA accession number verified

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