Pottery model bowl
Small pottery bowl with straight sides, flat base, and plain rim, [Type D LXXIX b]; light brown ware, faint white slip; broken, repaired, and partially restored with plaster.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_37.2673
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_37.2673; 37.2673
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Snefru - reign of Khufu
- Entry Date
- 2575–2528 B.C.
- Title
- Pottery model bowl
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Overall: 3.5 x 9.5 cm (1 3/8 x 3 3/4 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, 1172(104)
- 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. 66, pl. 47d.
- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 1925-1926: Excavated by the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; 1937: assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt.
- Remarks
- Object not registered (some Hetepheres pottery was registered, some was not).