Fragmentary pottery jar
Tall pottery wine jar [(shoulder jar)], [Type A II b]; WSR ware; mended, incomplete.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- GEM_6392
- Alternate IDs
- 6392; GEM_6392; EMC_JE_67756; JE_67756; EMC_SR_1/10047; SR_1/10047; HH_1021(74); 1021(74); HUMFA_34-4-6; 34-4-6
- Department
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Khufu
- Title
- Fragmentary pottery jar
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 37 cm Diameter: max: 24 cm; rim: 11 cm Weight: 2670 g
- Credit Line
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Provenance
- G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, 1021(74)
- 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. 63, fig. 58.
- Notes
- A large portion of Special Register section 7 (volumes 13-16) was originally misnumbered, with the object numbers following in sequence from section 1 volume 4; these numbers have thus been given EMC_SR_1 prefixes, despite being recorded in section 7.
- Remarks
- WSR = imitation of tufl ware in RW (red ware) or RBrW (red-brown ware) covered with light colored slip or wash
