Alabaster model jars
Alabaster model offering vessels: d) two small model jars, [Type XV a (1)].
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:1
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_35-4-1d
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_35-4-1d; 35-4-1d
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 04/01/1935
- Title
- Alabaster model jars
- Medium
- Alabaster
- Dimensions
- Height: 7.5 - 7.7 cm Diameter: max: 4.4 - 4.9 cm; rim: 3.4 - 2.9 cm; base: 3 - 2.9 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4610 A, chamber, in SE recess
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 520, fig. 323. 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.
- 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.