Limestone model jar
Limestone model offering jar, [Type XVI b], (one of set of model vessels, nine jars and sixty-one saucers, 24-12-541 through 24-12-558, 24-12-1007 through 24-12-1056, saucers vary between six types); [whole series once may have been colored yellow, a few still show traces, vessels cut with chisel, and in some cases with "stick borer", roughly cut grooves appear on edge of inside surface of basins (cf. 24-12-1028 and 24-12-1014)].
Illustration: Yes.
Additional illustration: Yes.
Additional illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_24-12-1008
- Alternate IDs
- 24-12-1008; HUMFA_24-12-1008
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 12/27/1924
- Title
- Limestone model jar
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height: 8.1 cm Diameter: neck: 2.2 cm; shoulder: 3.4 cm; base: 2.3 cm Thickness: .5 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 7132 A, [near door of 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. Simpson, William Kelly. The Mastabas of Kawab, Khafkhufu I and II. Giza Mastabas 3. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1978, p. 32, pl. XLVIh, fig. 60.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
