Pottery model bowls used as jar covers
Four pottery model [bowls], [Type D LXXIX b], ([used as] covers to 14-2-109 etc); ordinary brown ware, wet smoothed, red polished.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_14-2-104
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_14-2-104; 14-2-104
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5
- Entry Date
- 02/27/1914 - 03/01/1914
- Title
- Pottery model bowls used as jar covers
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 3.9 - 4.4 cm Diameter: 6.5 - 7.2 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4733 E
- 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. 87, fig. 127.
- Remarks
- Three of four pottery jar covers accessioned as MFA 20.1876b.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified