Fragmentary pottery jar
Pottery [shoulder] jar with narrow flat base, [Type B XVIII a]; fine hard red ware, wet smoothed, red wash; in fragments, incomplete.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_13-11-112
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_13-11-112; 13-11-112
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Entry Date
- 11/26/1913, 11/27/1913
- Title
- Fragmentary pottery jar
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 22.8 cm Diameter: 13.6 cm; top: 6.6 cm; base: 2.8 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4440 A, shaft
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 476, fig. 287, p. 478. 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. 90.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified