Fragmentary pottery jar
Pottery [shoulder] jar with round-pointed base and bulging shoulder, [Type A II b]; hard red ware (grey interior), whitish slip; in fragments, incomplete. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2
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- ID
- HUMFA_13-11-119
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- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Classification
- Vessels
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- Findspot
- Pit G 4440 A
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- Material
- Pottery
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- Dimensions
- Height: 40+ cm Diameter: 28 cm
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- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Object Ownership Information
- MFA accession number: 13.5684
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- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
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- Date of Register Entry
- 11/26/1913, 11/27/1913
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- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
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Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 476, fig. 287, p. 477.
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. 69.