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Object register entry:
Field number: 27-5-90
Field number: 27-5-90
Entry date(s): 05/25/1927
Object owner details: MFA accession number: 27.1543
Alabaster model basin
Findspot: Eastern Cemetery, Pit G 7440 Z [= G 7442], on floor beside sarcophagus
Alabaster
Expedition Measurements: Height: 1.5 cm
Diameter: 4.8 cm
Description: Alabaster model flat basin with rounded bottom and rounded rim, [Type IX a].
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:1
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. 98 (also incorrectly listed among Type X b, p. 100).
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. 98 (also incorrectly listed among Type X b, p. 100).
Problems/Questions:
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