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Pottery jar with plaster sealing

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2330 = G 5380

Pottery [shoulder] jar (cf. 12-10-39), [Type A II c], with plaster seal (flat top, less plaster than 12-10-39); greenish white ware; contents mud. Illustration: No

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_12-10-40
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 2330 (= G 5380) A, debris in chamber
  • Material
    Pottery, plaster
  • Dimensions
    Height: 32.5 cm Diameter: 19 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA
  • Date of Register Entry
    10/30/1912
  • Remarks
    There are discrepancies between OR notations for tomb sheet numbers and sketch plan of burial chamber (EG013047): 1 through 8 are pottery jars (with 7 and 8 sketched as broken) = 12-10-39 – 12-10-46; 9 and 10 are four plaster jar stoppers = 12-10-47, 12-10-48; 11, 12, 13 are three pottery bowls = 12-10-49 – 12-10-51

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 5380

    • 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Unpublished Documents 4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. 70.