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[Pottery deep round bottomed bowl with nearly vertical sides and plain rim], [Type C LXI f]; RBrW (red brown ware).
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

ID
GEM_6406
Alternate IDs
6406; GEM_6406; EMC_JE_67696; JE_67696; EMC_SR_1/10061; SR_1/10061; HH_1179; 1179; HUMFA_34-4-65; 34-4-65
Department
Grand Egyptian Museum
Classification
Vessels
Period
Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Khufu
Title
Pottery bowl
Medium
Pottery
Dimensions
Height: 9.2 cm Diameter: 18.8 cm Weight: 544 g
Credit Line
Grand Egyptian Museum
Provenance
G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, 1179
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. 61.
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.

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