Limestone model basins
Twenty white limestone model [basins], [Type X b]; seventeen complete.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:1
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_14-1-55
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_14-1-55; 14-1-55
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6
- Entry Date
- 01/15/1914 - 01/20/1914
- Title
- Limestone model basins
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height: 1.7 - 2.6 cm Diameter: 3.8 - 6.5 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4530 [A], shaft and chamber
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, pp. 489-490, fig. 297b. 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
- Twenty limestone model basins accessioned as MFA 14.1000.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified