Pottery jar with hieratic inscription
Greater part of pottery egg-shaped [shoulder] jar, [Type A II c]; drab ware, hieratic inscription on shoulder.
Illustration: Yes with hieroglyphs.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_35-7-16
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_35-7-16; 35-7-16
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 07/06/1935
- Title
- Pottery jar with hieratic inscription
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 26.5 cm (as preserved) Diameter: 20 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 2387 A (main shaft of G 2385), 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
- G 2387 A (main shaft of G 2385) first excavated in 1912 and reexcavated in 1935.