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Two pottery jars; ordinary brown ware, wet smoothed, knife-dressed below; one in fragments, incomplete.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

ID
PMAE_5881
Alternate IDs
5881; PMAE_5881; HUMFA_14-1-76; 14-1-76; 43-42-50/5881
Department
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
Classification
Vessels
Entry Date
01/15/1914 - 01/20/1914
Title
Pottery jars
Medium
Pottery
Dimensions
HUMFA object register: Height: 10.3 cm Diameter: 7.5 cm Peabody Museum record: H 10.6 x W 7.7 cm; measurement of opening 3.9 x 4 cm; representative rim thickness 0.7 cm
Credit Line
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
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.
Notes
Two jars (one complete, one fragmentary and incomplete) originally registered as HUMFA_14-1-76. Complete jar accessioned as PMAE_5881; it is inclear if the fragments are also in the collection of the Peabody Museum.

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