Result 4 of 71
Object register entry:
Field number: 27-5-24a
Field number: 27-5-24a
Entry date(s): 05/25/1927
Object owner details: MFA accession number: 27.1470
Alabaster model jar
Findspot: Eastern Cemetery, Pit G 7440 Z [= G 7442], on floor beside sarcophagus
Alabaster
Expedition Measurements: Height: 9.3 cm
Width: max: 4.5 cm
Diameter: mouth: 3.7 cm; inside mouth: 2.7 cm; base: 3.8 cm
Description: [One of] five alabaster model collar jars, [Type XVI a].
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. 97, fig. 144.
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. 97, fig. 144.
Problems/Questions:
MFA accession number verified
