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Pottery offering jars

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Four pottery traditional ceremonial [offering] jars, [Type A IV]; coarse RBW (red brown ware); all containing original mud filling; one complete, three broken (one in fragments), incomplete. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_25-12-282
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 6012 A
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 37 cm, 37 cm, 34 cm, 31+ cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Date of Register Entry
    12/19/1925

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 6012

    • 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Unpublished Documents 3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. 71.

    Weeks, Kent R. Mastabas of Cemetery G 6000. Giza Mastabas 5. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1994, fig. 127.