Pottery jar
Pottery [shoulder] jar (cf. 13-11-27 for shape), [Type A II b]; coarse black-centered reddish brown ware, red wash, a few black hematite spots on surface, pebble polished; neck and rim gone.
Illustration: No
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_13-11-28
- Alternate IDs
- 13-11-28; HUMFA_13-11-28
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Entry Date
- 11/01/1913
- Title
- Pottery jar
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 19+ cm Diameter: 14 cm from bottom: 14 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. 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. 69.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified