Pottery combed ware jar
Large pottery two-handled [combed ware] jar (cf. 12-12-569), [Type B LIV]; fibrous ball in neck, small amount of organic matter; broken off at neck in antiquity.
Illustration: No
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_12-12-573
- Alternate IDs
- 12-12-573; HUMFA_12-12-573
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Early Bronze Age
- Entry Date
- 12/31/1912
- Title
- Pottery combed ware jar
- Medium
- Pottery, plaster
- Dimensions
- Height: 49.5 cm Width: 30.5 cm; handles: 3.8 cm and 4 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 2381 A, [chamber] (419, probably 415)
- 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. 76.
- Remarks
- Original OR entry description mentions broken neck and does not mention plaster stopper; jar identified as 12-12-573 (in published caption for B1680) has plaster stopper.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified // original tomb sheet number unaltered, but since 419 reassigned to 12-12-571, this is probably tomb sheet number 415