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Fragmentary faience jar

White plaster jar, apparently intended to be faience but unfinished, [faience with glaze gone]; marking on interior suggests it was molded about mass of fibre which was removed after baking through hole cut in top; broken, incomplete. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_25-12-229
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 6028 F, shaft
  • Material
    Plaster (faience core)
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Date of Register Entry
    12/17/1925

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 6028

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 1

Full Bibliography

  • Weeks, Kent R. Mastabas of Cemetery G 6000. Giza Mastabas 5. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1994, fig. 129.