Gneiss bowl with recurved rim inscribed for Teti
Small [anorthosite gneiss] bowl with recurved rim, [Type XI b]; fine small hieroglyphs [GLYPHS] scratched on side just under shoulder.
Illustration: Yes with hieroglyphs.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_12-12-109
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_12-12-109; 12-12-109
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6, reign of Teti
- Entry Date
- 12/11/1912
- Title
- Gneiss bowl with recurved rim inscribed for Teti
- Medium
- [Anorthosite gneiss]
- Dimensions
- Height: 4.2 cm Diameter: 9.3 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 2385 A (assumed to be associated with mastaba G 2374), debris
- Bibliography
- Brovarski, Edward. "The Senedjemib Complex at Giza: An Interim Report." L'Égyptologie en 1979. Axes prioritaires de recherches, tome II. Colloques Internationaux du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique No. 595. Paris: Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1982, p. 115, note 6. Markowitz, Yvonne J., Joyce L. Haynes, and Rita E. Freed. Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids: Highlights from the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expedition. Boston: MFA Publications, 2002, p. 117, cat. 50. 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. 101.
- Remarks
- G 2385 A first excavated in 1912 and reexcavated in 1935.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
