Limestone model jars
Three small limestone [model] offering [jars], [Type XV a (1)]; not hollowed out completely; [one was broken and mended?], neck missing on another.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- MFAB_29.2794
- Alternate IDs
- 29.2794; MFAB_29.2794; HUMFA_29-12-167; 29-12-167
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 12/14/1929
- Title
- Limestone model jars
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height: 7.8 cm Diameter: 3 cm; inner rim: 1.3 cm; base: 2.3 cm
- Credit Line
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- 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.
- Notes
- Six limestone model jars originally registered as HUMFA_29-12-167; four intact, one broken and mended, and one with neck missing. Three accessioned as MFAB_29.2794 (includes the jar with neck missing, may or may not include the broken and mended jar); two accessioned as GEM_16046 (formerly EMC_JE_56999) and GEM_16047 (formerly EMC_JE_57001). Ownership of sixth jar is unkown.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified