Limestone model dishes
[Eight] crudely made limestone saucers (cf. 29-12-72), [Type X b].
Illustration: No
Details
- ID
- MFAB_29.2778
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_29.2778; 29.2778; HUMFA_29-12-92; 29-12-92
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 12/07/1929
- Title
- Limestone model dishes
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height: 2.4 - 2.8 cm Diameter: 4.8 - 6.4 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
- Ten limestone model vessels originally registered as HUMFA_29-12-92; eight are in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFAB_29.2778); two are in the collection of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM_16054, formerly EMC_JE_57008; and GEM_16055, formerly EMC_JE_57007).
- Remarks
- Eight limestone model dishes accessioned as MFA 29.2778
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified