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Fragments of pottery basin

Mass of fragments: o) enormous pottery basin, [Type D LXXI a]; fine hard brown ware (black center), wet smoothed. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_13-11-123o
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 4440 A (fragments of some found in street E of G 4440)
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Diameter: ca 50 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Date of Register Entry
    11/26/1913, 11/27/1913

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 4440

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 4

Full 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. 85 (misidentified as 12-11-123c).