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Alabaster model dishes

Forty-one or more alabaster model offering dishes; flat bottomed with slightly curved sides (some slightly rounded flat bottom), two types "a" and "b", [two Type Xa]; eighteen complete, four broken and mended complete, seven broken and mended nearly complete, plus twelve or more fragments. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_36-1-3
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 2100 A, chamber
  • Material
    Alabaster
  • Dimensions
    Height: 1.4 - 1.6 cm Diameter: 4.8 - 6.8 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA
  • Date of Register Entry
    01/08/1936

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 2100

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 2

Full Bibliography

  • Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 419, fig. 239.

    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. 99 (misidentified as 36-3-1).