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Pottery jar

Small pottery [shoulder] jar with tapering base, rimmed mouth, [Type A II c]; ordinary RW (red ware), knife-dressed, red wash outside; lop-sided. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_15-12-71
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 4512 [A]
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 16.4 cm Width: mouth: 7.7 cm Length: mouth: 7.3 cm Diameter: at 5.4 cm down: 11.7 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA
  • Date of Register Entry
    12/29/1915

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 4512

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 3

Full 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. 70, fig. 83.