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Pottery model bowls used as jar covers

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4733

Four pottery model [bowls], [Type D LXXIX b], ([used as] covers to 14-2-109 etc); ordinary brown ware, wet smoothed, red polished. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_14-2-104
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 4733 E
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 3.9 - 4.4 cm Diameter: 6.5 - 7.2 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession number: 20.1876b
  • Period
    Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5
  • Date of Register Entry
    02/27/1914 - 03/01/1914
  • Remarks
    Three of four pottery jar covers accessioned as MFA 20.1876b.
  • Problems/Questions
    MFA accession number verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 4733

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 2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. 87, fig. 127.