Skip to main content

Thirteen fragments of pottery [flat bottomed flaring] basin, [Type D XXXIX a]; RW (red ware), red polished inside and outside; not quite complete.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

ID
HUMFA_33-2-116
Alternate IDs
HUMFA_33-2-116; 33-2-116
Department
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification
Vessels
Entry Date
02/04/1933
Title
Fragmentary pottery flaring basin
Medium
Pottery
Dimensions
Height: 20 cm Diameter: 33 cm
Credit Line
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Provenance
Pit G 2347 X (= G 5562 A), debris of pit itself
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. 85, fig. 121.
Problems/Questions
MFA accession number verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

Photos 2

Unpublished Documents 2