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Fragmentary pottery jar

Object register page:

[One of] three large pottery round-pointed[-bottom] [shoulder] jars, [Type A II c]; dark grey ware with white specks, wet smoothed, stick-dressed on base, light greenish slip; outside burned red on one side, in fragments, incomplete. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_14-2-115a
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 4733 E
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 31.3 - 33.7 cm Diameter: 17.8 - 19.2 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession number: 20.1877
  • Period
    Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5
  • Date of Register Entry
    02/27/1914 - 03/01/1914
  • Problems/Questions
    MFA accession number verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 4733

    • 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Unpublished Documents 3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. 70 (misidentified as 14-12-115), fig. 82.