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Object register entry:
Field number: 25-12-88
Field number: 25-12-88
Entry date(s): 12/05/1925
Object owner details: MFA accession number: 25.2801
Alabaster model dish
Findspot: Western Cemetery, Pit G 6020 A, chamber, floor debris
Alabaster
Expedition Measurements: Height: 1.9 cm
Diameter: 6 cm
Description: Alabaster model saucer, [Type IX a or b].
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. 100 (incorrectly listed among Type X b).
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 (incorrectly listed among Type X b).
Problems/Questions:
based on original OR illustration, this is a round bottomed dish (stone vessel Type IX) not flat bottomed (stone vessel Type X); MFA accession number verified
