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Pottery [flat bottomed] flaring bowl, [Type D XXXIX a]; reddish brown ware, wheel-made, red wash, pebble polished all over (dull); broken but nearly complete.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:4

Details

ID
HUMFA_12-10-49
Alternate IDs
HUMFA_12-10-49; 12-10-49
Department
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification
Vessels
Entry Date
10/30/1912
Title
Pottery flaring bowl
Medium
Pottery
Dimensions
Height: 11 cm Diameter: 24.5 cm
Credit Line
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance
Pit G 2330 (= G 5380) A, debris in chamber
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, fig. 121.
Remarks
There are discrepancies between OR notations for tomb sheet numbers and sketch plan of burial chamber (EG013047): 1 through 8 are pottery jars (with 7 and 8 sketched as broken) = 12-10-39 – 12-10-46; 9 and 10 are four plaster jar stoppers = 12-10-47, 12-10-48; 11, 12, 13 are three pottery bowls = 12-10-49 – 12-10-51

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