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Pottery [round bottomed] bowl with [rudimentary] recurved rim, [Type C LXVI b]; RP (red polished ware); nearly complete.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

ID
HUMFA_36-4-18
Alternate IDs
36-4-18; HUMFA_36-4-18
Department
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification
Vessels
Entry Date
04/04/1936
Title
Fragmentary pottery bowl
Medium
Pottery
Dimensions
Height: 7.2 cm Diameter: 19 cm
Credit Line
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance
Pit G 2357 N (= G 5561 N)
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. 83, fig. 116.
Remarks
According to original OR entries 36-4-12 through 36-4-18 from G 2357 N = G 5561 N, 36-4-19 through 36-4-23 from G 2357 M = G 5561 M; diary entries for these two shafts (M = Vol.28.p.286, N = Vol.28.p.287) mention pottery (identified as fragments of model dishes) for shaft N only, no pottery mentioned for shaft M; pits G 2357 MNOPQRSTUVWXYZ = pits G 5561 MNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

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