Limestone model dishes
Seventy-five (75) white limestone model saucers and four fragments, [Type IX a]; painted yellow; eight broken.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_14-11-195
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_14-11-195; 14-11-195
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4 - Dynasty 5
- Entry Date
- 11/29/1914
- Title
- Limestone model dishes
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 4.2 - 7.2 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 5232 A, deposit [E] of [rock-cut] coffin
- Bibliography
- 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. 99.
- Remarks
- For provenance see expedition diary Vol.08.p.057. Sixteen of seventy-five alabaster model dishes accessioned as MFA 14.1737
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified