Pottery neckless shoulder jars
Four pottery [neckless] shoulder jars, [Type B LV a]; reddish brown ware (purplish interior), red polished; two perfect and two in fragments, incomplete.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_14-1-45
- Alternate IDs
- 14-1-45; HUMFA_14-1-45
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom
- Entry Date
- 01/10/1914
- Title
- Pottery neckless shoulder jars
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 22 cm Diameter: 19.5 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4631 B, chamber
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 496, fig. 304c, p. 498. 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. 77.
- Remarks
- Three of four pottery neckless shoulder jars accessioned as MFA 20.1884, MFA 20.1885, MFA 20.1886.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession numbers verified