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Wide pottery round bottomed [basin], [Type C XXIX]; brown ware, red wash; broken, complete.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

ID
HUMFA_14-12-43
Alternate IDs
HUMFA_14-12-43; 14-12-43
Department
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification
Vessels
Period
Old Kingdom
Entry Date
12/08/1914
Title
Pottery basin
Medium
Pottery
Dimensions
Height: 20.2 cm Diameter: 25.2 cm
Credit Line
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance
Mastaba G 5210, offering room, NW corner of outer room in sand
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.
Problems/Questions
MFA accession number verified

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