Pottery footed bowl
Pottery offering bowl on stand (cf. 13-10-51), [Type E XXI]; fine brown ware, wet smoothed on inside and outside surfaces, covered with black hematite specks // fragment of similar bowl; slightly coarser brown ware (slight black interior).
Illustration: No
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_13-11-25
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_13-11-25; 13-11-25
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Tomb equipment-Offering tables and basins
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Entry Date
- 11/01/1913
- Title
- Pottery footed bowl
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 8 cm Diameter: max: 15 cm; base: 9 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4140 A
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 461, fig. 279, p. 464. 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. 87.
- Remarks
- One pottery footed bowl accessioned as MFA 13.5628.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified