Fragmentary pottery jars
Fragments of at least fourteen pottery jars, [Type A VI]; red polished ware; partly mended, none complete.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_35-7-23
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_35-7-23; 35-7-23; PMAE_5873; 5873; 43-42-50/5873
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 07/28/1935
- Title
- Fragmentary pottery jars
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Height: 21.6 cm Diameter: max: 20.5 cm; rim: 7.8 - 9.2 cm Dimensions of jar g (= PMAE_5873): H 21.5 x W 21 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 2370 B, 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. 71 (attributed to G 2370 A), fig. 86.
- Notes
- Two of fourteen fragmentary jars accessioned as: MFA 37.2721 (= h), MFA 37.2717 (= i); nine in collection of the MFA (unaccessioned); one accessioned as PMAE_5873 (=g). Provenance: originally identified as G 2370 A corrected to read G 2370 B (see Brovarski 2001 p.79 footnote 580 concerning reidentification of shaft from A to B)
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession numbers verified