Pottery jar
Pottery jar, [Type A LVI]; fine brown ware, wet smoothed, many black hematite spots on surface, pebble polished.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_13-11-26
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_13-11-26; 13-11-26
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom
- Entry Date
- 11/01/1913
- Title
- Pottery jar
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 14+ cm Diameter: max: 14 cm; rim: 9.6 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. 463. 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. 72, fig. 88.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified