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Pottery trumpet-mouthed jars

Three pottery wide-mouthed jars, [Type B LIX b]; red brown ware, wet smoothed; two in fragments. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_15-11-78
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 4813 C
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 29 cm Diameter: 15.7 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession number: 20.2003
  • Period
    Old Kingdom
  • Date of Register Entry
    11/25/1915
  • Remarks
    One pottery jar (complete) accessioned as MFA 20.2003
  • Problems/Questions
    MFA accession number verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 4813

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 3

Full Bibliography

  • 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. 79, fig. 104.