Limestone model jars
Ten white limestone model [cylinder] jars, [Type I c]; one in two fragments.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:1
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_14-1-67
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_14-1-67; 14-1-67
- 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 jars
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height: 6.6 - 8 cm Diameter: 4.3 - 6.3 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. 488-489, 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, fig. 134.
- Remarks
- Ten limestone model jars accessioned as MFA 14.1014.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified