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

Details

ID
GEM_6380
Alternate IDs
6380; GEM_6380; EMC_JE_67688; JE_67688; EMC_SR_1/10035; SR_1/10035; HH_1098(5); 1098(5); HUMFA_34-4-80; 34-4-80
Department
Grand Egyptian Museum
Classification
Vessels
Period
Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Khufu
Title
Pottery flaring bowl
Medium
Pottery
Dimensions
Height: 12.7 cm Diameter: top: 34.8 cm; base: 7.8 cm Weight: 1650 g
Credit Line
Grand Egyptian Museum
Provenance
G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, 1198(5) (or 1098(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. 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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