Pottery and plaster stand with pottery jars (model granaries)
Pottery and plaster stand for three [neckless shoulder jars (model granaries)], [Type F XXVI b]; white plaster covered with black slip, pottery reddish ware (black interior), wet smoothed, red polished, black speckled; two incomplete [jars] in position, one in fragments, third missing, one [jar] with plaster inverted cone in mouth, both [jars] with square door on side (for covers see 14-2-104).
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:4
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_14-2-109
- Alternate IDs
- 14-2-109; HUMFA_14-2-109
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Tomb equipment-Models
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5
- Entry Date
- 02/27/1914 - 03/01/1914
- Title
- Pottery and plaster stand with pottery jars (model granaries)
- Medium
- Pottery, plaster
- Dimensions
- Height: 21.5 cm Length: 49 cm Thickness: base: 5.5
- 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. 89, fig. 133.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified