Pottery bowl with recurved rim and tubular spout
Pottery [flat bottomed bowl with recurved rim and long tubular spout], [Type D XXXVI]; soft brown ware, broken section shows dark band in middle and mud-colored strip on either side, red wash, both inner and outer surfaces speckled with black markings due to presence of hematite in wash, pebble burnished.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_13-10-30
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_13-10-30; 13-10-30
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Entry Date
- 10/21/1913
- Title
- Pottery bowl with recurved rim and tubular spout
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 15.4 cm Diameter: rim: 30.3 cm; base: ca 7.5 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, 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. 84.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified