Digital Giza | Alabaster offering table

Open IIIF manifest

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2009

Round alabaster offering table on cylindrical base.

ID: MFAB_06.1883a-b
Alternate IDs: 06.1883a-b; MFAB_06.1883a-b
Department: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Classification: Tomb equipment-Offering tables and basins
Period: Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5
Entry Date: about 2465–2323 B.C.
Title: Alabaster offering table
Medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
Dimensions: Height x diameter: 5.7 x 16.5 cm (2 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance: Mastaba G 2009, serdab
Bibliography: D'Auria, Sue, Peter Lacovara, and Catharine H. Roehrig. Mummies & Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1988, p. 90, cat. 19. Manuelian, Peter Der. Slab Stelae of the Giza Necropolis. Publications of the Pennsylvania–Yale Expedition to Egypt 7. New Haven and Philadelphia: Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2003, p. 151, fig. 221. New Orleans Museum of Art. Eye for Eye: Egyptian Images & Inscriptions. April 2, 1977 through February, 1978, New Orleans Museum of Art. New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 1977, cat. 49.
Notes: This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 1905-1906: Excavated by the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; 1906: assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt. (Accession Date: November 8, 1906)
Remarks: Object not registered (no registration records for 1903-1904-1905-1906).