Fragmentary pottery jars
Five large pottery jars, Type III (2) and Type II; all in fragments, four partly mended: a) coarse RW (red ware) [shoulder jar, Type A II b], wide form, potmarks similar to b; b) RW (red ware) [shoulder jar, Type A II b], red wash, potmarks; c) RW (red ware) jar, buff wash, no potmarks visible.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_28-3-87
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_28-3-87; 28-3-87
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 03/30/1928
- Title
- Fragmentary pottery jars
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: a: 34 cm; b: 31.5 cm Diameter: a: max 24.3 cm, mouth: ca 10 cm; b: 22.1 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 7350 A, debris in doorway
- Bibliography
- 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. 70, fig. 81.