Fragmentary pottery basin
Small pottery basin, [Type D XXXVII b]; fine hard reddish brown ware, red polished; mended from 15 fragments, incomplete. Rounded base and body, slightly constricted collar and rim, horizontal groove line below exterior rim, area of fire clouding on exterior surface.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- PMAE_5875
- Alternate IDs
- 5875; PMAE_5875; HUMFA_14-2-24; 14-2-24; 43-42-50/5875
- Department
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 02/18/1914
- Title
- Fragmentary pottery basin
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- HUMFA object register: Height: 15 cm x Diameter: 14.6 cm (?) Peabody Museum record: H 14.9 x W 19.5 x D 20.6 cm (W and D are diameter dimensions); representative rim thickness 1 cm
- Credit Line
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
- Provenance
- Pit G 4822 B, shaft
- Bibliography
- 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. 84, fig. 120.