Pottery model jar
Small pottery model [jar] of unique type, [Type B LVIII]; wheel-turned, hard-baked, unperforated lumps of clay in imtation of handles below rim, raised band ornamented with scratched cross-lines below neck.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_13-10-21
- Alternate IDs
- 13-10-21; HUMFA_13-10-21
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Entry Date
- 10/21/1913
- Title
- Pottery model jar
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 8.1 cm Width: 4 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4340 A, chamber, floor sand
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 472, fig. 285, p. 474. 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. 78.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified