Fragmentary pottery jar
Six baskets full of potsherds, of which following pieced together and mended, all incomplete: g) large wine jar [(shoulder jar)], [Type A II b]; nearly complete, mouth irregular. White slipped, X-shaped incised mark on surface, mended from 61 fragments.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- PMAE_5885
- Alternate IDs
- PMAE_5885; 5885; HUMFA_34-6-17g; 34-6-17g; 43-42-50/5885
- Department
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 06/24/1934, 06/25/1934, 06/28/1934
- Title
- Fragmentary pottery jar
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- HUMFA object register: Height: 35 cm Diameter: max: 23.2 cm; rim: 11 cm Peabody Museum record: H 33 x W 21.5 cm; representative rim thickness 0.9 cm
- Credit Line
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
- Provenance
- G 7330-7340: pit G 7330 A, debris of pit
- 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. 69.