Fragments of pottery one-handled pitcher
Upper and lower part of large pottery [one-handled pitcher], [Type B LIII b]; thin hard ware, wheel-made, covered outside with creamy yellow slip, smoothed with vertical strokes, inside bright red and marked with concentric rings, probably caused during manufacture by grit in clay, white specks visible in section, handle from shoulder to neck, raised rib runs between handle and neck; rim broken off all round down to upper part of handle.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_13-10-68
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_13-10-68; 13-10-68
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Early Bronze Age
- Entry Date
- 10/21/1913
- Title
- Fragments of pottery one-handled pitcher
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 37 cm Diameter: max: 22.6 cm; top of neck: 4.5 cm; base: 6.6 cm Thickness: average: 4 mm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4340 A
- 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, pp. 64, 74, fig. 95.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified