Pottery jar with vertical spout
Pottery spouted [jar], [Type LIX a]; reddish brown ware, wet smoothed, red wash, traces of whitish slip.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_14-4-13
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_14-4-13; 14-4-13
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4 - Dynasty 5
- Entry Date
- 04/04/1914
- Title
- Pottery jar with vertical spout
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 34.3 cm Length: 18.6 cm Diameter: 16 cm; mouth: 12.4 cm; base: 3.2 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- G 4520 b (= published G 4520 A), chamber
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 504, fig. 310, p. 507. 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. 79, fig. 104.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified