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Seventeen small alabaster model offering dishes, [Type X b]; poor quality.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:1

Details

ID
HUMFA_35-12-5
Alternate IDs
35-12-5; HUMFA_35-12-5
Department
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification
Vessels
Entry Date
12/04/1935
Title
Alabaster model dishes
Medium
Alabaster
Dimensions
Height: 1 - 1.7 cm Diameter: 3.6 - 6 cm
Credit Line
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance
Pit G 4714 A, 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
Four of seventeen model dishes accessioned as MFA 35.2013–35.2016
Problems/Questions
MFA accession numbers verified

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