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Object register entry:
Field number: 28-5-179 (6)
Field number: 28-5-179 (6)
Entry date(s): 05/18/1928
Object owner details: MFA accession number: 28.1511
Alabaster model dish
Findspot: Eastern Cemetery, Pit G 7550 B, debris of chamber
Alabaster
Expedition Measurements: Height: 1.5 cm
Diameter: 5.6 cm; base: 2 cm
Thickness: .5 cm
Description: [One of] nine alabaster model saucers: 6) flat base, [Type X c]; damaged at rim.
Illustration: No
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Selected Published References:
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. 101 (misidentified as 25-5-179).
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. 101 (misidentified as 25-5-179).
Remarks: Six complete model dishes (labeled 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7) + fragments of two others (labeled 8, 9) + 3 unmarked fragments accessioned as MFA 28.1511; one model dish (labeled 5) not MFA owned.
