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Pottery jar

Complete pottery [shoulder] jar, [Type A II b]; red polished ware, remains of white plaster sealing on shoulder; partly filled with mud and (?). Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    EMC_JE_67610
  • Department
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 2000 B, chamber I, [on chamber floor E of burial]
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 37 cm Diameter: max: 21.6 cm; rim: 10.4 cm
  • Credit Line
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
    HUMFA_35-4-22
  • Object Ownership Information
    In the collection of: Egyptian Museum, Cairo (EMC_JE_67610)
  • Date of Register Entry
    04/15/1935
  • Object owned by
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Remarks
    This pottery jar is from chamber I (not chamber II, which was empty), see diary Vol.27.p.037

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 2000

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Full Bibliography

  • Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, 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.

Institutions 1