Pottery model dishes
Twelve pottery model saucers, [Type D LXXIX a]; ordinary brown ware (pinkish interior), wet smoothed, string (?) cut surface; five incomplete.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:1
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_14-1-71
- Alternate IDs
- 14-1-71; HUMFA_14-1-71
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Entry Date
- 01/15/1914 - 01/20/1914
- Title
- Pottery model dishes
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 2.2 - 2.5 cm Diameter: 7 - 8.7 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, p. 489, fig. 297a, p. 491. 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. 87.
- Remarks
- Seven of twelve pottery model dishes accessioned as MFA 14.1019.1–MFA 14.1019.7.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession numbers verified