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Huge pottery round bottomed basin, [Type C XXIX]; hard reddish brown ware, wet smoothed; in fragments, incomplete.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

ID
HUMFA_14-2-27
Alternate IDs
14-2-27; HUMFA_14-2-27
Department
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification
Vessels
Period
Old Kingdom
Entry Date
02/18/1914
Title
Fragmentary pottery basin
Medium
Pottery
Dimensions
Height: 23.7 cm Diameter: 32.8 cm
Credit Line
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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. 79, fig. 106.
Problems/Questions
MFA accession number verified

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