Pottery jar with plaster stopper
Small pottery [shoulder] jar, neck, rounded shoulder, tapering base, [Type A II c], stopper of sandy plaster; fine red ware, wheel-made, wet smoothed, pink drab slip; stopper broken.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_14-12-32
- Alternate IDs
- 14-12-32; HUMFA_14-12-32
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom
- Entry Date
- 12/06/1914
- Title
- Pottery jar with plaster stopper
- Medium
- Pottery, plaster
- Dimensions
- Height: 30 cm Diameter: 15 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 5221 A, chamber
- 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.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified