Fragmentary pottery jars
Four pottery jars, [Type B XVIII a]; ordinary brown ware, wet smoothed, knife-dressed; one in fragments, incomplete.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_14-1-75
- Alternate IDs
- 14-1-75; HUMFA_14-1-75
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom
- Entry Date
- 01/15/1914 - 01/20/1914
- Title
- Fragmentary pottery jars
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 9 - 9.8 cm Diameter: 7.2 - 8 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4530 A
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, pp. 489-490, fig. 297a. 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. 73, fig. 91.
- Remarks
- One of four pottery jars accessioned as MFA 20.1888. One of four pottery jars MFA owned (unaccessioned).
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified