Pottery model jar
Pottery model [jar] with pointed bottom, bottom tapers to rounded point, [Type A LVI]; fine brown ware, wheel-turned, pebble smoothed, hard-baked of reddish color, raised rib round neck.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 2:3
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_13-10-27
- Alternate IDs
- 13-10-27; HUMFA_13-10-27
- 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: 11 cm Width: 7 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4340 A, debris in shaft
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, pp. 472-473, fig. 285. Reisner, George Andrew, 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. 72, fig. 88.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified