Fragment of pottery bowl
Fragment of bent-sided bowl (Class C); plain drab ware, outward sloping sides, slightly flaring rim, coarse texture, circumferential incised line on interior side
Details
- ID
- PMAE_5886
- Alternate IDs
- 5886; PMAE_5886; 43-42-50/5886; HUMFA_34-10-4(2); 34-10-4(2)
- Department
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom
- Title
- Fragment of pottery bowl
- Medium
- Pottery
- Dimensions
- H 7.2 x W 21.6 x D 10.5 cm; representative wall thickness 0.8 cm
- Credit Line
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
- Provenance
- G 1223-Annex X (?)
- Notes
- There has been some confusion between this object and a fragmentary pottery jar also in the Peabody Museum, PMAE_5863 (=HUMFA_34-4-4). This seems to have come about due to a registry error in 1934, in which a number of objects were given 34-10-* and 34-12-* numbers, despite those numbers already having been used; these numbers were later changed to 34-4-*, to avoid duplication. However, PMAE_5886 should not have been "corrected" to 34-4-4 (from G 7000 X) in MFA records; it seems to belong with HUMFA_34-10-4 and HUMFA_34-10-5 (both bent-sided bowls, fragmentary, incomplete); it does not appear to fit with either bowl, but was shipped in BG#444, as was 34-10-5. Fragment is labeled 34-10-4(2).