Pottery jar with mud and plaster stopper
Pottery [shoulder] jar with mud and plaster stopper (cf. 14-11-160), [Type A II c]; hard red brown ware, drab slip (wash), mud stopper covered with plaster; contents mud.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:4
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_14-11-159
- Alternate IDs
- 14-11-159; HUMFA_14-11-159
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom
- Entry Date
- 11/29/1914
- Title
- Pottery jar with mud and plaster stopper
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 33.4 cm Diameter: 13.6 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 5232 A
- 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. 70, fig. 83.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified