Fragmentary pottery jar
Small pottery round bottomed [shoulder] jar, [Type A II b]; hard reddish brown ware (black interior), wet smoothed; in fragments, incomplete.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_14-1-23
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_14-1-23; 14-1-23
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5
- Entry Date
- 01/04/1914, 01/06/1914, 01/10/1914
- Title
- Fragmentary pottery jar
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 14 cm Diameter: 9.5 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4630 A, shaft
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, pp. 493-494, fig. 299. 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, fig. 81.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified