Alabaster cylinder jar
Clear alabaster [cylinder jar], [Type I e].
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_13-12-10
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_13-12-10; 13-12-10
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4 - Dynasty 6
- Entry Date
- 12/12/1913
- Title
- Alabaster cylinder jar
- Medium
- Alabaster
- Dimensions
- Height: 7.4 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. 94.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified