Fragmentary pottery jar
[One of] fifty [or fifty-one?] pottery [flat bottomed shoulder jars] of practically similar shape, [Type B XIX]; ordinary brown ware (black interior), outside red, black speckled, red polish varying in dullness; two partly filled with mouse bones; majority in fragments, incomplete, accompanied by many fragments: qq) almost-globular shoulder jar with flat base; reconstructed from sherds, on one side as high as the shoulder.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_14-2-121qq
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_14-2-121qq; 14-2-121qq; HUMFA_14-2-121; 14-2-121
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 02/27/1914 - 03/01/1914
- Title
- Fragmentary pottery jar
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- Overall: Height: 10.2 - 14.6 cm Diameter: 9.7 - 11.4 cm qq) Base diameter: 5.9 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Pit G 4733 E
- 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. 73 (misidentified as 14-12-121), fig. 93.
- Notes
- Object register entry lists 50 jars, mostly in fragments, incomplete; "accompanied by many fragments." One in collection of Peabody Museum, PMAE_5879; five accessioned as MFA 20.1874, MFA 20.1875, MFA 20.1880, MFA 20.2022, MFA 20.2023; forty-five (HUMFA_14-2-121a - HUMFA_14-2-121ss) MFA owned (unaccessioned); 51 jars total (one perhaps assembled from the "many fragments"?).
- Remarks
- Five of fifty flat-bottomed shoulder jars accessioned as MFA 20.1874, MFA 20.1875, MFA 20.1880, MFA 20.2022, MFA 20.2023; forty-five MFA owned (unaccessioned).
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession numbers verified