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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
EMC_JE_67613
Alternate IDs
JE_67613; EMC_JE_67613; HUMFA_33-1-59a; 33-1-59a
Department
Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Classification
Vessels
Entry Date
01/13/1993, 01/14/1933
Title
Fragmentary pottery basin with open spout
Medium
Pottery
Dimensions
Diameter: ca 60 cm JE: H 18.7 x D (of rim) 29(?) cm
Credit Line
Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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).

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