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Site: Giza; view: G 7442 (formerly G 7440 Z)

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  • Site: Giza; view: G 7442 (formerly G 7440 Z)
Object register entry:
Field number: 27-5-42
Entry date(s): 05/25/1927
Object owner details: MFA accession number: 27.1495
Alabaster model basin
Findspot: Eastern Cemetery, Pit G 7440 Z [= G 7442], on floor beside sarcophagus
Alabaster
Expedition Measurements: Height: 1.5 cm Diameter: 4.8 cm; base: 1.2 cm
Description: Roughly made alabaster model basin with flat bottom and flattened rim, [Type X a]. Illustration: No
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Selected Published References:
Allen, Susan. "Miniature and Model Vessels in Ancient Egypt." In Miroslav Bárta, ed. The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology. Proceedings of the Conference held in Prague, May 31-June 4, 2004. Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2006, p. 20, fig. 1. 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. 100.
Problems/Questions: MFA accession number verified