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
- HUMFA_36-3-62
- Alternate IDs
- 36-3-62; HUMFA_36-3-62
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Tomb equipment-Canopics and canopic Boxes
- Entry Date
- 03/30/1936
- Title
- Pottery canopic jar
- Medium
- Pottery, plaster
- Dimensions
- Height: 32.8 cm Diameter: max: 18 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- 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