Limestone model dishes
Sixty-one roughly made limestone offering saucers and fragments of about [seven] others, [Type X b]; some with pieces broken from rims.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:1
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_29-12-166
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_29-12-166; 29-12-166
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 12/14/1929
- Title
- Limestone model dishes
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height: average: 1.5 - 1.7 cm Diameter: average: 3.3 - 4.8 cm; base, average: 2.5 - 3.5 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 7753 A, debris of burial chamber
- 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
- Object register entry for HUMFA_29-12-166 lists 61 complete and fragments of about eight other (69 total) model dishes. Actual number probably at least 70 total: 68 in collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (unaccessioned), and two in collection of Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM_16050, formerly EMC_JE_57003; and GEM_16051, formerly EMC_JE_57004).