Related: Alabaster offering table
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Site: Giza; view: G 7442 (formerly G 7440 Z)

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  • Group shot: 27.1469a-b, 21.2819, 27.1525, 27.1477
  • Site: Giza; view: G 7442 (formerly G 7440 Z)
Object register entry:
Field number: 27-5-23
Entry date(s): 05/25/1927
Object owner details: MFA accession number: 27.1469a-b
Alabaster offering table
Findspot: Eastern Cemetery, Pit G 7440 Z [= G 7442], on floor beside sarcophagus
Alabaster
Expedition Measurements: Height: stand: 3.1 cm Diameter: table: 16.35 cm; top of stand: 3 cm; bottom of stand: 4.9 cm; hole: 2.7 cm Thickness: table: 1.2 cm
Description: Small alabaster offering table, [Type XII b]; irregular hole drilled, roughly bored cavity not in center; stand broken off, in two pieces [(flat circular top and conical stand)]. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:1
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. 101.
Problems/Questions: MFA accession number verified