Alabaster model jar
Alabaster model [jar], [Type XV a (1)], (one of set of model vessels, seventeen jars, two basins, sixty model saucers, including 25-1-439 through 25-1-517, saucers vary between ten types, rarely symmetrical).
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2.
Additional illustration: Yes.
Additional illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_25-1-452
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_25-1-452; 25-1-452
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 01/09/1925
- Title
- Alabaster model jar
- Medium
- Alabaster
- Dimensions
- Height: 5.5 cm Diameter: mouth: 2.9 cm; shoulder: 3.8 cm; base: 2.6cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 7111 C, tomb 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. Simpson, William Kelly. The Mastabas of Kawab, Khafkhufu I and II. Giza Mastabas 3. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1978, p. 29, pl. XLVI, fig. 55.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
