Fragmentary pottery jar
Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7792, G 7330-7340, G 7530-7540, G 7500 Pt XI, G 7690, G 7792, G 7520, G 7450, street G 7400, G 7792, G 7779, street G 7500
Small pottery [shoulder] jar with neck and rim and rounded bottom, [Type A II b] (ovoid jar well known in Dynasty 5); RW (red ware); in fragments (mended), a few pieces missing.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_27-6-10
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_27-6-10; 27-6-10
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 06/05/1927
- Title
- Fragmentary pottery jar
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 16.7 cm; neck: 2.1 cm Width: 11.9 cm; neck: 4.6 - 5.5 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- G 7530-7540: pit G 7530 A, debris on floor of chamber
- Bibliography
- Dunham, Dows, and William Kelly Simpson. The Mastaba of Queen Mersyankh III (G 7530-7540). Giza Mastabas 1. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1974, p. 23, fig. 16d. 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. 70, fig. 83.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
