Pottery cover with loop handle
Pottery cover with loop handle on top, pierced with small holes, [Type G LII c] (evidently piece covering seal on canopic chest, WSS (1950)); smooth RBrW (red brown ware).
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- GEM_6395
- Alternate IDs
- 6395; GEM_6395; EMC_JE_67638; JE_67638; EMC_SR_1/10050; SR_1/10050; HH_pit_6; pit_6; HUMFA_34-4-42; 34-4-42
- Department
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Khufu
- Title
- Pottery cover with loop handle
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 4.1 cm; 6.6 cm Diameter: 12.4 cm Weight: 181 g
- Credit Line
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Provenance
- G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, pit (6)
- 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, pp. 48, 67, fig. 78.
- 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.