Fragmentary pottery jar
[One of] three large pottery round-pointed[-bottom] [shoulder] jars, [Type A II c]; dark grey ware with white specks, wet smoothed, stick-dressed on base, light greenish slip; outside burned red on one side, in fragments, incomplete.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_14-2-115a
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_14-2-115a; 14-2-115a
- 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
- Fragmentary pottery jar
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 31.3 - 33.7 cm Diameter: 17.8 - 19.2 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. 70 (misidentified as 14-12-115), fig. 82.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified