Alabaster model bowls
Eleven alabaster model bowls, [Type X b].
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:1
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_14-1-41
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_14-1-41; 14-1-41
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, late Dynasty 4 - early Dynasty 5
- Entry Date
- 01/10/1914
- Title
- Alabaster model bowls
- Medium
- Alabaster
- Dimensions
- Height: 2.4 - 2.8 cm Diameter: 3.4 - 4.5 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4631 B, chamber
- Bibliography
- Markowitz, Yvonne J., Joyce L. Haynes, and Rita E. Freed. Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids: Highlights from the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expedition. Boston: MFA Publications, 2002, pp. 66-67, cat. 15g. Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, pp. 496-497, fig. 304b. 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. 100.
- Remarks
- Ten alabaster model bowls accessioned as MFA 14.990; one alabaster model bowl accessioned as MFA 21.3093.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession numbers verified