Pottery neckless shoulder jars (model granaries)
Two pottery [neckless shoulder jars (model granaries)], originally from plaster bases (eg, see 14-2-109, 14-2-110, 14-2-111), [Type F XXVI b]; reddish brown ware (black interior), wet smoothed, red polished, square pot maker's mark; one [jar] complete, one in fragments, stopper (cf. 14-2-114, similar shape) loose inside.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_14-2-112
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_14-2-112; 14-2-112
- 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 neckless shoulder jars (model granaries)
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: both: 18.9 cm Diameter: 16 - 16.7 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. 89, fig. 133.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession numbers verified