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Object register entry:
Field number: 35-11-68
Field number: 35-11-68
Entry date(s): 11/21/1935
Object owner details: MFA
Alabaster model dishes
Findspot: Western Cemetery, G 4811+4812: pit G 4811 B, chamber
Alabaster
Expedition Measurements: Height: 1.1 - 2 cm
Diameter: 4-5.9 cm
Description: Fifty-five and one-half alabaster model dishes, [Type IX a]; four broken, mended, three incomplete.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
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. 99.
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. 99.
Remarks: G 4811 B burial chamber was first excavated (see diary Vol.09.p.055) and photographed (C6964, C6971, C6972, C6988) in 1915; reexcavated (see diary Vol.27.p.176) and objects registered in 1935.
