Diorite bowl
Thin translucent diorite (or gneiss) bowl with five in-turned rim sections, [Type X e]; broken, repaired.
Details
- ID
- HM_6-19784
- Alternate IDs
- 6-19784; HM_6-19784
- Department
- Hearst Museum, Berkeley
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4 or earlier
- Entry Date
- 1903–1904
- Title
- Diorite bowl
- Medium
- Diorite or Gneiss
- Dimensions
- 20 cm (7 7/8 in)
- Credit Line
- Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Hearst Egyptian Expedition
- Provenance
- Mastaba G 1024, in debris behind offering chamber.
- Bibliography
- Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, pp. 310-311, cat. 99. 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. 101, fig. 147.