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Pottery [round bottomed] bowl with recurved rim, [Type C XXXII]; hard red brown ware (black interior), pebble polished; in fragments.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

ID
HUMFA_14-1-6
Alternate IDs
14-1-6; HUMFA_14-1-6
Department
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification
Vessels
Period
Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5
Entry Date
01/04/1914, 01/06/1914, 01/10/1914
Title
Fragmentary pottery bowl with recurved rim
Medium
Pottery
Dimensions
Height: 8.6 cm Diameter: 24.6 cm
Credit Line
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance
Pit G 4630 A, shaft
Bibliography
Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 494 (misidentified as 14-1-16). 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. 81, fig. 110.
Problems/Questions
MFA accession number verified

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