Alabaster model dishes
Alabaster model offering vessels: a) twenty-two (22) small round bottomed dishes, [Type IX a].
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:1
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_35-4-1a
- Alternate IDs
- 35-4-1a; HUMFA_35-4-1a
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 04/01/1935
- Title
- Alabaster model dishes
- Medium
- Alabaster
- Dimensions
- Height: .9 - 1.9 cm Diameter: 3.3 - 5.4 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4610 A, chamber, in SE recess
- Bibliography
- Markowitz, Yvonne J., Joyce L. Haynes, and Rita E. Freed. Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids: Highlights from the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expedition. Boston: MFA Publications, 2002, p. 95, cat. 35d. Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 520. 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. 98.
- Remarks
- G 4610 A first excavated in 1915 (see diary Vol.09.p.041), other alabaster model vessels removed and registered (15-11-46 through 15-11-56), these vessels exposed and photograhed (see C6948), but not removed or registered; G 4610 A reexcavated in 1935 (see diary Vol.27.p.031, Vol.27.p.032), these vessels rephotographed (see B8436), removed, and registered (35-4-1) at that time. One of twenty-two alabaster model dishes accessioned as MFA 35.2030. Twenty-one of twenty-two alabaster model dishes MFA owned (unaccessioned).
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified