Pottery model jar
Pottery model jar (cf. 13-12-13), [Type B LVI]; ordinary brown ware. Flat expanding base, slightly constricted body, wide flat shoulders, constricted collar, expanded neck, straight cylindrical rim, evidence of surface smoothing during construction, slightly coarse texture, small losses to base and expanded ridge at neck.
Illustration: Yes
Details
- ID
- PMAE_5882
- Alternate IDs
- 5882; PMAE_5882; HUMFA_13-12-17; 13-12-17; 43-42-50/5882
- Department
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 12/12/1913, 12/13/1913, 12/14/1913
- Title
- Pottery model jar
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- HUMFA object register: Height: 11.9 cm Diameter: 6.3 cm Peabody Museum record: H 11.9 x diam. 6.2 cm; measurement of opening 3.9 cm; representative wall thickness 0.4 cm; measurement from base to shoulder 8 cm; measurement of expanded neck 5.4 x 5.45 cm
- Credit Line
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
- Provenance
- Pit G 4540 A
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 481. 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. 78, fig. 101.