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Five pottery round-pointed-bottom [shoulder] jars, [Type A II c]; hard red brown ware, stick-dressed, greenish pink slip; slip burned pinkish red on one, four in fragments, incomplete.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

ID
HUMFA_14-2-120
Alternate IDs
14-2-120; HUMFA_14-2-120
Department
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification
Vessels
Period
Old Kingdom
Entry Date
02/27/1914 - 03/01/1914
Title
Pottery jars
Medium
Pottery
Dimensions
Height: 28.5 - 31 cm Diameter: 16.5 - 19 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 14-12-120), fig. 82.

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