Fragmentary pottery neckless shoulder jars
Three pottery [neckless shoulder jars], [Type B LV a]; ordinary brown ware; all in fragments, one complete.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_14-3-35
- Alternate IDs
- 14-3-35; HUMFA_14-3-35
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Entry Date
- 03/08/1914 - 03/13/1914
- Title
- Fragmentary pottery neckless shoulder jars
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 8.1 - 9.5 cm Diameter: 9.7 - 10.1 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4720 A
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, pp. 510-511, fig. 314. 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. 76.
- Remarks
- One of three pottery jars accessioned as MFA 14.1462.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified