Limestone model dishes
[Six] crudely made limestone saucers (cf. 29-12-71), [Type X b], varying slightly, and two fragments.
Illustration: No
Details
- ID
- MFAB_29.2777
- Alternate IDs
- 29.2777; MFAB_29.2777; HUMFA_29-12-91; 29-12-91
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 12/07/1929
- Title
- Limestone model dishes
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height: 2 - 2.3 cm Diameter: rim: 4.8 - 5.7 cm
- Credit Line
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Provenance
- Pit G 7754 B, in coffin in room
- 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. 100.
- Notes
- Seven model dishes and two fragments originally registered as HUMFA_29-12-91; one is in the collection of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM_16058, formerly EMC_JE_57011); remaining six complete and two fragments are in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFAB_29.2777).
- Remarks
- Six limestone model dishes accessioned as MFA 29.2777
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified