Pottery basin with tubular spout
Large [deep] pottery [flat bottomed basin] with [roll rim and short tubular] spout (cf. 12-12-567), [Type D XXXV a].
Illustration: No
Details
- ID
- MMA_37.6.6
- Alternate IDs
- MMA_37.6.6; 37.6.6; HUMFA_12-12-568; 12-12-568; MFAB_13.3271; 13.3271
- Department
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6, probably reign of Pepi I
- Entry Date
- 12/31/1912
- Title
- Pottery basin with tubular spout
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 32.2 cm Diameter: 37 x 38 cm (top), 15.4 cm (bottom)
- Credit Line
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1937
- Provenance
- Pit G 2381 A, [chamber] (414)
- Bibliography
- 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. p. 83.
- Notes
- Excavated by the Harvard-Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expediton in Giza, 1912. Received from the Egyptian Government by the MFA in the allotment of finds (MFAB_13.3271). Deaccessioned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, by exchange in 1937.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA and MMA accession numbers verified