Pottery neckless shoulder jar
Tall pottery [neckless] shoulder jar, [Type B LV a]; brown ware, hand smoothed, red polished.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_14-3-45
- Alternate IDs
- 14-3-45; HUMFA_14-3-45
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4 - Dynasty 5
- Entry Date
- 03/08/1914 - 03/13/1914
- Title
- Pottery neckless shoulder jar
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 26.2 cm Diameter: 14.3 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, fig. 99.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified