Fragmentary pottery jar
Huge round pottery shoulder jar, [Type A II b]; red ware (hard black interior), greenish slip; plaster inside very thick and hard (cf. 13-11-119); in fragments.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: ca 1:10
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_14-1-83
- Alternate IDs
- 14-1-83; HUMFA_14-1-83
- 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
- Fragmentary pottery jar
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: ca 42 cm Diameter: 26.5 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, p. 490. 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. 69.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified