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Alabaster cylinder jar, [Type I d].
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

ID
HUMFA_34-9-4
Alternate IDs
34-9-4; HUMFA_34-9-4
Department
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification
Vessels
Entry Date
09/30/1934
Title
Alabaster cylinder jar
Medium
Alabaster
Dimensions
Height: 18.8 cm Diameter: rim: 13.2 cm; base: 10.4 cm
Credit Line
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance
Pit G 1407 A, debris of chamber
Bibliography
Reisner, George A. "Report on the Egyptian Expedition during 1934-35." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 33, No. 199 (October 1935), p. 75, fig. 11. 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. 93, fig. 136.
Problems/Questions
MFA accession number verified

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