Pottery ring stands
Three pottery [ring stands], [Type E XXIV], and bottom fragment of fourth (not measured); red brown ware, not well smoothed; damaged.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:1
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_13-10-48
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_13-10-48; 13-10-48
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Stands
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Entry Date
- 10/21/1913
- Title
- Pottery ring stands
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 5.4 cm; 5.3 cm; 5.2 cm Diameter: max: 6.3 cm; max: 5.9 cm; max: 6.4 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4340 A, debris in shaft
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 475. 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. 88, fig. 131.
- Remarks
- One of three ring stands accessioned as MFA 20.1911.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified