Deep pottery basin
Large deep pottery basin, [Type D LXXI], with thick walls, flattened rim, and flat base; redware, incised line below rim; fragmentary, repaired and restored with plaster.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_47.2067
- Alternate IDs
- 47.2067; MFAB_47.2067
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Snefru to Khufu
- Entry Date
- 2575–2528 B.C.
- Title
- Deep pottery basin
- Medium
- Pottery (redware)
- Dimensions
- Height x diameter: 54 x 61 cm (21 1/4 x 24 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, 1189(65)
- 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. 65, fig. 70, pl. 47a.
- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 1926: excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; 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).