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Pottery offering jars

Six rough pottery ordinary traditional offering jars, straight sided with pointed bottom, no shoulder, [Type A IV]; red ware; two half-filled with solid mud. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_35-11-34
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 2347a E (= G 5564 C)
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 23 - 27 cm; 24.4 cm Diameter: 11 - 13 cm; 11.8 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Date of Register Entry
    11/11/1935
  • Remarks
    pits G 2347a CDE = pits G 5564 ABC

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 5564

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 1

Full 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.