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Pottery flaring bowl

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2300 = G 5190, G 2360

Pottery [flat bottomed flaring] bowl, [Type D XXXIX b]; red ware (black center), wet smoothed, outside trimmed while wet // fragments of coal. Illustration: Yes

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_12-10-20
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 2300 (= G 5190) A
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 24+ cm Diameter: 36 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Date of Register Entry
    10/21/1912
  • Problems/Questions
    Problem: material: coal ? (or is it charcoal) see original entry; photo reference: are these two groups of mended fragments both 12-10-20 ?

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 5190

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 4

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. 85.