Fragmentary pottery bowl
Fragmentary pottery bowl, (red polished) bent-sided with roll rim, [Type C XXX a]; mended, incomplete.
Details
- ID
- EMC_JE_67617
- Alternate IDs
- EMC_JE_67617; JE_67617
- Department
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 1935
- Title
- Fragmentary pottery bowl
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Diam. 34.2 cm
- Credit Line
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Provenance
- Pit G 2379 A
- 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, pp. 80, 83, fig. 117 (not identified as 35-7-44 in any citation).
- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. Pottery sherds were mentioned in excavation diary for burial chamber of G 2379 A, which was cleared July 29, 1935 (see diary Vol.27.p.083 and Vol.27.p.084); these sherds, which were not registered, were presumably reconstructed at a later date into bowls and basins shown in photographs B8712, B8713, B8717 (dated July 6 and July 8, 1936); registration number was omitted in original OR registration sequence 35-7-*; identification as 36-7-44 based on annotated prints in 1937 divisions photo box. One bowl (-44(18), see photo HUMFA_B8713_NS, 4/1) in collection of Egyptian Museum, Cairo, EMC_JE_67617.