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Pottery offering jar

Fragments of two red polished [vessels] // tall red pot stand // mud stoppers. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_14-1-48
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 4631 B, chamber
  • Material
    Pottery, mud
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Date of Register Entry
    01/10/1914
  • Notes
    Object register entry for HUMFA_14-1-48 includes pottery jar, fragments of two red polished vessels, a tall red pot stand, and mud stoppers. Pottery jar is in the collection of the Peabody Museum (see record PMAE_5883); this record is for the remaining objects (current location unknown).
  • Remarks
    Pottery jar in collection of Peabody Museum.

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 4631

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 5

Full Bibliography

  • Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 496, fig. 304c, p. 498.

    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. 71 (attributed to G 4631 A).