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Fragmentary pottery bowl with recurved rim

Fragment of large pottery [round bottomed] bowl with [recurved rim], [Type C XXXII]; RW (red ware); partially mended, incomplete // fragments of dried plaster (bowl probably used to contain plaster). Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_28-4-187
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 7789 A, debris of chamber
  • Material
    Pottery, plaster
  • Dimensions
    Height: 9 cm; rim: 2 cm Diameter: 19.5 cm Thickness: 4 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession number: 28.1455
  • Date of Register Entry
    04/27/1928
  • Problems/Questions
    MFA accession number verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 7789

    • Site Name Eastern Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 3

Full 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. 81, fig. 111.