Pottery jar
Pottery [shoulder] jar, [Type A II b]; red polished ware, white wash outside, remains of mud sealing on shoulder; complete, partly filled with mud and (?).
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_35-4-21
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_35-4-21; 35-4-21
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 04/15/1935
- Title
- Pottery jar
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 35.6 cm Diameter: max: 20.6 cm; rim: 9 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 2000 B, chamber I, [on chamber floor E of burial]
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 415, fig. 237, p. 416. 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. 69.
- Remarks
- This pottery jar is from chamber I (not chamber II, which was empty), see diary Vol.27.p.037