Pottery cover with loop handle
[Pottery bowl cover with loop handle on top], [Type G LII b]; RW (red ware).
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- GEM_6427
- Alternate IDs
- GEM_6427; 6427; EMC_JE_67646; JE_67646; EMC_SR_1/10098; SR_1/10098; HH_1193(5); 1193(5); HUMFA_34-4-51; 34-4-51
- Department
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Khufu
- Title
- Pottery cover with loop handle
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 3.7 cm; 9.2 cm Diameter: 52 cm Weight: 4590 g
- Credit Line
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Provenance
- G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, 1193(5)
- 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. 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.
