Pottery canopic jar
Pottery canopic jar with pointed bottom, [Type A II c]; pink WSR ware, sealed with white plaster.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- EMC_JE_67615
- Alternate IDs
- JE_67615; EMC_JE_67615; HUMFA_36-3-61; 36-3-61
- Department
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Classification
- Tomb equipment-Canopics and canopic Boxes
- Entry Date
- 03/30/1936
- Title
- Pottery canopic jar
- Medium
- Pottery, plaster
- Dimensions
- Height: 31 cm Diameter: max: 17.4 cm
- Credit Line
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Provenance
- Pit G 2006 A, chamber
- 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. 70.
- Remarks
- WSR = imitation of tufl ware in RW (red ware) or RBrW (red-brown ware) covered with light colored slip or wash