Skip to main content

Pottery offering jars

Object register page:

Four pottery ordinary [traditional] offering jars, [Type A IV]; RW (red ware); three partly broken at neck, one complete. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_27-5-103
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Street G 7200, debris E of mastaba G 7230-7240: G 7240
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 1): 31.1 cm; 2): 31.2 cm; 3): 32 cm; 4): 31 cm Diameter: 1) 15 cm; neck (mouth): 10 cm x 8.5 cm; 2) 15.1 cm; mouth: 9.5 cm x 9 cm; 3) 15 cm; mouth: 9.4 cm; 4): 16 cm; mouth broken off
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Date of Register Entry
    05/28/1927

Tombs and Monuments 2

Unpublished Documents 2

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.