Pottery offering jar
Crude coarse brown ware [traditional offering] jar, [Type A IV]. Tapered round base, straight rim, two punctures at rim.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: 1:2
Details
- ID
- PMAE_5883
- Alternate IDs
- 5883; PMAE_5883; HUMFA_14-1-48; 14-1-48; 43-42-50/5883
- Department
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
- Classification
- Vessels
- Entry Date
- 01/10/1914
- Title
- Pottery offering jar
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- HUMFA object register: Height: 17 cm Diameter: 11.1 cm Peabody Museum record: H 16.5 x Diam. 11.5 cm; representative wall thickness 1.1 cm
- Credit Line
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
- Provenance
- Pit G 4631 B, chamber
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 496, fig. 304c, p. 498. 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. 71 (attributed to G 4631 A).
- Notes
- Object register entry for HUMFA_14-1-48 includes pottery jar, fragments of two red polished vessels, a tall red pot stand, and mud stoppers. Pottery jar is in the collection of the Peabody Museum (PMAE_5883); for the remaining objects see record HUMFA_14-1-48.
- Remarks
- Pottery jar in collection of Peabody Museum.