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Five pottery jars, [Type B XVIII a]; ordinary brown ware, wet smoothed, knife-dressed below; one in fragments, incomplete.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

ID
HUMFA_14-1-77
Alternate IDs
14-1-77; HUMFA_14-1-77
Department
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification
Vessels
Period
Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
Entry Date
01/15/1914 - 01/20/1914
Title
Pottery jars
Medium
Pottery
Dimensions
Height: 9 - 9.9 cm Diameter: 7.1 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
Two of five pottery jars accessioned as MFA 14.1025.1, MFA 14.1025.2.
Problems/Questions
MFA accession numbers verified

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