Pottery jar
Small pottery [jar], [Type B XVIII a]; red brown ware, dark reddish brown, wet smoothed, brown inside, covered with purplish specks outside.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_14-1-8
- Alternate IDs
- 14-1-8; HUMFA_14-1-8
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom
- Entry Date
- 01/04/1914, 01/06/1914, 01/10/1914
- Title
- Pottery jar
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 10 cm Diameter: 7.6 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4630 A, chamber
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, pp. 493-494, fig. 299. 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. 73, fig. 91.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified