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Small limestone [model] offering [jar], [Type XV a (1)].
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

ID
GEM_16048
Alternate IDs
GEM_16048; 16048; EMC_JE_57001; JE_57001; EMC_SR_2/1294; SR_2/1294; HUMFA_29-12-168; 29-12-168
Department
Grand Egyptian Museum
Classification
Vessels
Period
Old Kingdom
Title
Limestone model jar
Medium
Limestone
Dimensions
6.0 x 3.0 cm; 46 g
Credit Line
Grand Egyptian Museum
Provenance
Pit 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. 97, fig. 143.
Notes
Two model jars originally registered as HUMFA_29-12-168; one in collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFAB_29.2795), one in collection of Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM_16048, formerly EMC_JE_57001).
Remarks
RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): George Reisner; ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): EMC_JE_57001; EMC_SR_2.1294; HU-MFA_29-12-168

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