Alabaster model dishes
Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4811+4812, G 1208, G 1226, G 2381, G 1158
Fifty-five and one-half alabaster model dishes, [Type IX a]; four broken, mended, three incomplete.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_35-11-68
- Alternate IDs
- 35-11-68; HUMFA_35-11-68
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 11/21/1935
- Title
- Alabaster model dishes
- Medium
- Alabaster
- Dimensions
- Height: 1.1 - 2 cm Diameter: 4-5.9 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- G 4811+4812: pit G 4811 B, 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. 99.
- Remarks
- G 4811 B burial chamber was first excavated (see diary Vol.09.p.055) and photographed (C6964, C6971, C6972, C6988) in 1915; reexcavated (see diary Vol.27.p.176) and objects registered in 1935.