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Small limestone [model] offering [jar], [Type XV a (1)]; not hollowed out completely; [was broken and mended?].
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

ID
HUMFA_29-12-167
Alternate IDs
29-12-167; HUMFA_29-12-167
Department
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification
Vessels
Entry Date
12/14/1929
Title
Limestone model jar
Medium
Limestone
Dimensions
Height: 7.8 cm Diameter: 3 cm; inner rim: 1.3 cm; base: 2.3 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. 97.
Notes
Six limestone model jars originally registered as HUMFA_29-12-167; four intact, one broken and mended, and one with neck missing. Three accessioned as MFAB_29.2794 (includes the jar with neck missing, may or may not include the broken and mended jar); two accessioned as GEM_16046 (formerly EMC_JE_56999) and GEM_16047 (formerly EMC_JE_57001). Ownership of the sixth jar, which may or not be one that was broken and mended, is unkown.
Problems/Questions
MFA accession number verified

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