Fragmentary faience jar
White plaster jar, apparently intended to be faience but unfinished, [faience with glaze gone]; marking on interior suggests it was molded about mass of fibre which was removed after baking through hole cut in top; broken, incomplete.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_25-12-229
- Alternate IDs
- 25-12-229; HUMFA_25-12-229
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 12/17/1925
- Title
- Fragmentary faience jar
- Medium
- Plaster (faience core)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 6028 F, shaft
- Bibliography
- Weeks, Kent R. Mastabas of Cemetery G 6000. Giza Mastabas 5. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1994, fig. 129.