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Pottery [flat bottomed flaring] bowl, [Type D XXXIX b]; red ware (black center), wet smoothed, outside trimmed while wet // fragments of coal.
Illustration: Yes

Details

ID
HUMFA_12-10-20
Alternate IDs
HUMFA_12-10-20; 12-10-20
Department
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification
Vessels
Entry Date
10/21/1912
Title
Pottery flaring bowl
Medium
Pottery
Dimensions
Height: 24+ cm Diameter: 36 cm
Credit Line
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance
Pit G 2300 (= G 5190) A
Bibliography
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. 85.
Problems/Questions
Problem: material: coal ? (or is it charcoal) see original entry; photo reference: are these two groups of mended fragments both 12-10-20 ?

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Photos 2

Unpublished Documents 4