Alabaster model dish
Small crudely made alabaster [model saucer], [Type IX a], (one of set of model vessels including 24-12-203, 24-12-259, 24-12-260, 24-12-1169, 24-12-1170, 24-12-1171, 25-1-29); base broken.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:1.
Additional illustrations: Yes.
Additional illustrations scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_24-12-203
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_24-12-203; 24-12-203
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Khufu
- Entry Date
- 12/08/1924
- Title
- Alabaster model dish
- Medium
- Alabaster
- Dimensions
- Height: 1.7 cm Diameter: mouth: 5.7 cm; base: ca 1.3 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 7110-7120: G 7110, 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. 98 (incorrectly listed as 3 models). Simpson, William Kelly. The Mastabas of Kawab, Khafkhufu I and II. Giza Mastabas 3. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1978. p. 5, fig. 6.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
