Fragmentary pottery bowl with lip spout and handles
Large pottery [round bottomed] bowl with lip [spout] and two handles, [Type C LXI d]; RBrW (red brown ware); broken, mended.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- PMAE_5869
- Alternate IDs
- PMAE_5869; 5869; HH_1422(62); 1422(62); 43-42-50/5869; HUMFA_34-4-25; 34-4-25
- Department
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, Khufu
- Title
- Fragmentary pottery bowl with lip spout and handles
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Overall: Height: 19.2 cm Diameter: 48 cm; max: 50 cm Measurement of largest fragment: H 51 x W 38 x D 19 cm Representative wall thickness 1.7 cm
- Credit Line
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
- Provenance
- G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, 1422(62)
- 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. 65, fig. 66.
- Notes
- This jar was given overall Hetepheres findspot number HH_1422(62), but multiple additional numbers are visible in Peabody Museum photos (writen on the various fragments), including: 1078(25), 1078(28), 1078(29), 1078(30) (?), 1078(36), 1171(21), 1189(18), 1189(51), 1191(28), 1191(29), 1191(112), 1193(42), 1289(25), 1417(34), 1418(127), and 1422(61).