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Eight complete alabaster model offering cups, one nearly complete (five fragments mended) and fragment of another, [Type X b], [(two mended cups composed of fragments from 33-2-108 + 33-2-98), one additional small fragment part of mended cup composed of fragments from 33-2-103 + 33-2-108 + 33-2-150].
Illustration: No

Details

ID
HUMFA_33-2-108
Alternate IDs
HUMFA_33-2-108; 33-2-108
Department
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification
Vessels
Entry Date
02/04/1933
Title
Alabaster model cups
Medium
Alabaster
Dimensions
Height: 3.9 - 4.5 cm Diameter: 5.3 - 6.8 cm
Credit Line
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance
Pit G 2200 (= G 5080) B, debris of 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. 100.
Remarks
MFA 33.1080 = eight complete model cups (33-2-108) and two mended model cups (33-2-108 + 33-2-98). MFA 33.1078 = twelve model cups (33-2-103), one of which is mended model cup (33-2-103 + 33-2-108 + 33-2-150); fragment labeled 33-2-108 in this mended model cup not included in original OR entry for this registration number.

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