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Pottery carinated bowl

Object register page:

Pottery [bent-sided] bowl, [Type D LXXVI a], (Old Kingdom); RBW (red brown ware), black core; thin deposit of white plaster about 6 mm thick and marked deeply into grooves by man's fingers on upper surface, lower surface molded into form of bowl, showing that plaster was poured in when wet for use. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_25-12-50
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 6020 A, chamber floor
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Date of Register Entry
    12/05/1925

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 6020

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 3

Full 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. 86 (also incorrectly listed among Type D LXXIX a, p. 87), fig. 126.

    Weeks, Kent R. Mastabas of Cemetery G 6000. Giza Mastabas 5. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1994, fig. 128.