Pottery bag-shaped jar
Pottery bag-shaped jar with rounded base and flattened everted rim, [Type A LI]; brown ware, traces of white slip; surface slightly worn, two small cracks in rim, condition otherwise excellent.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_37.2653
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_37.2653; 37.2653
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Snefru - reign of Khufu
- Entry Date
- 2575–2528 B.C.
- Title
- Pottery bag-shaped jar
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Overall: 10 x 12.5 cm (3 15/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, 1277
- 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. 64, fig. 59.
- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 1925-1926: Excavated by the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; 1937: assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt.
- Remarks
- Object not registered (some Hetepheres pottery was registered, some was not). Field number 1277 also associated with unregistered alabaster cylinder jar and lid (1031 + 1277).