Fragments of alabaster bowl
Fragments of clear alabaster bowl (cf. 13-11-97, but worked thinner, not so well-smoothed), [Type X c]; incomplete.
Illustration: No
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_13-11-98
- Alternate IDs
- 13-11-98; HUMFA_13-11-98
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 11/24/1913, 11/25/1913
- Title
- Fragments of alabaster bowl
- Medium
- Alabaster
- Dimensions
- Diameter: ca 30 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4440 A (fragments also in street)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 477. 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.
- Remarks
- Other odd fragments of alabaster were found in street E of G 4440.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified