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Pottery [shoulder] jar (cf. 14-12-32), [Type A II c], [with plaster stopper]; stopper top cracked off but in place // also fragments of two or three pottery jars (cf. 14-12-29) and two or three pottery jars (cf. 14-12-32).
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Details

ID
HUMFA_14-12-36
Alternate IDs
14-12-36; HUMFA_14-12-36
Department
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification
Vessels
Entry Date
12/06/1914
Title
Pottery jar with plaster stopper
Medium
Pottery, plaster
Dimensions
Height: 28 cm; incl: 31.7 cm Diameter: 16 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.
Remarks
Pottery jar accessioned as MFA 14.1746.
Problems/Questions
MFA accession number verified

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