Fragmentary pottery basin with open spout
Eight baskets full of potsherds: a) pottery [flat bottomed] basin with roll rim and [open] spout, [Type D XXXV c]; RW (red ware).
Illustration: Yes
Details
- ID
- MFAB_37.2714
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_37.2714; 37.2714; HUMFA_33-1-59a; 33-1-59a
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 01/13/1993, 01/14/1933
- Title
- Fragmentary pottery basin with open spout
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Diameter: ca 60 cm
- Credit Line
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Provenance
- Pit G 2200 (= G 5080) C, 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. 84.
- Notes
- Eight baskets of fragments (total number of vessels unknown) originally registered as HUMFA_33-1-59. One fragmentary spouted basin (restored) in collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFAB_37.2714). Other spouted basins (some repaired, incomplete) MFA owned (unaccessioned). One in collection of Egyptian Museum, Cairo (EMC_JE_67613).