Object owner details: MFA accession number: 38.2158

Findspot: Western Cemetery, Pit G 2089 A, foot end of coffin

Alabaster

Expedition Measurements: Height: 23.5 cm Diameter: min: 12.2 cm; rim: 17.2 cm; base: 15.2 cm

Description: Alabaster cylinder jar, [Type I d], with vertical hieratic inscription in black ink, [name and title of Nefer-ked]; perfect. Illustration: Yes with hieroglyphs. Illustration scale: 1:2

Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition

Selected Published References:
Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L.B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings 3: Memphis (Abû Rawâsh to Dahshûr). Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1931. 2nd edition. 3: Memphis, Part 1 (Abû Rawâsh to Abûsîr), revised and augmented by Jaromír Málek. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1974, p. 69. 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, pp. 93, 102, fig. 136. Roth, Ann Macy. A Cemetery of Palace Attendants. Giza Mastabas 6. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1995, pp. 93, 94, fig. 57.