Digital Giza | Alabaster bowl

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4640

Clear alabaster bowl, [Type IX b]; cracked but complete.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2

ID: HUMFA_13-12-6
Alternate IDs: 13-12-6; HUMFA_13-12-6
Department: Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification: Vessels
Period: Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4 - Dynasty 6
Entry Date: 12/11/1913
Title: Alabaster bowl
Medium: Alabaster
Dimensions: Height: 5.6 cm Diameter: 20.8 cm
Credit Line: Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance: Pit G 4640 A, shaft
Bibliography: Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, pp. 482-483, fig. 291. 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 (also incorrectly listed among Type X c, p. 101).
Problems/Questions: MFA accession number verified

Alabaster bowl