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[Pottery flat bottomed flaring bowl], [Type D XXXIX a]; RP (red polished).
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

ID
GEM_6379
Alternate IDs
GEM_6379; 6379; EMC_JE_67687; JE_67687; EMC_SR_1/10034; SR_1/10034; HH_1100; 1100; HUMFA_34-4-76; 34-4-76
Department
Grand Egyptian Museum
Classification
Vessels
Period
Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Khufu
Title
Pottery flaring bowl
Medium
Pottery
Dimensions
Height: 6.9 - 8 cm Diameter: top: 20.7 cm; base: 4.8 cm Weight: 482 g
Credit Line
Grand Egyptian Museum
Provenance
G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, 1100
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. 66, fig. 75.
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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