SculptureEgyptian3rd-2nd millennium BCE
Fragment of an Offering Basin
3rd-2nd millennium BCE
Description
Fragment, possibly limestone with inscription "Hathor Mistress of the Western Land"
Dimensions
13.9 x 12 cm (5 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.)
Provenance
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
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