Limestone model dish
Roughly made limestone model dish, [Type X b], with a chipped rim and a flat base.
Details
- ID
- GEM_16051
- Alternate IDs
- 16051; GEM_16051; EMC_JE_57004; JE_57004; EMC_SR_2/1297; SR_2/1297; HUMFA_29-12-166; 29-12-166
- Department
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom
- Title
- Limestone model dish
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- 1.7 x 4.3 cm
- Credit Line
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Provenance
- G 7753 A, debris of burial 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.
- Notes
- Object register entry for HUMFA_29-12-166 lists 61 complete and fragments of about eight other (69 total) model dishes. Actual number probably at least 70 total: 68 in collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (unaccessioned), and two in collection of Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM_16050, formerly EMC_JE_57003; and GEM_16051, formerly EMC_JE_57004).
- Remarks
- RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): George Reisner; ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): EMC_JE_57004; EMC_SR_2.1297; HU-MFA_29-12-166