Pottery combed ware jar
Large pottery two-handled [combed ware] jar, [Type B LIV], with pot maker's mark [(potmark)]; reddish brown ware (dark interior), wet smoothed, finely ribbed surface; top missing.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_14-1-10
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_14-1-10; 14-1-10
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 01/04/1914, 01/06/1914, 01/10/1914
- Title
- Pottery combed ware jar
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: about 36 cm Diameter: 18.7 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4630 A, chamber
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. "Accessions to the Egyptian Department During 1914 (Excavations at Giza and Kerma)." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 13, No. 76 (1915), pp. 33-36, fig. 15. Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 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. 76, fig. 97.
- Notes
- Ancient Near Eastern, Syria 2649-2100 B.C.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
