Related: Alabaster model cups
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Site: Giza; view: G 2200 = G 5080

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  • Site: Giza; view: G 2200 = G 5080
Object register entry:
Field number: 33-2-98
Entry date(s): 02/01/1933, 03/30/1933
Object owner details: MFA accession number: 33.1075, 33.1080
Alabaster model cups
Findspot: Western Cemetery, Pit G 2200 (= G 5080) B, debris of chamber
Alabaster
Expedition Measurements: Height: 3.6 - 4.5 Diameter: 6 - 6.5 cm
Description: Five complete (plus one brought up with lower part of statue 33-2-101) = [total of six complete] alabaster model offering cups (cf. 33-1-36), [Type X b], and fragments of three others (one low cup fragment 2.3 cm high joins fragment from 33-2-150; [two other fragments join fragments from 33-2-108]); one complete cup slightly chipped 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. 100 (misidentified as 33-2-97).
Remarks: MFA 33.1075 = five complete model cups (33-2-98) and one mended model cup (33-2-98 + 33-2-150); MFA 33.1080 = eight complete model cups (33-2-108) and two mended cups (33-2-108 + 33-2-98)
Problems/Questions: MFA accession numbers verified