Digital Giza | Fragmentary pottery jar

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

[One of] two large pottery round-pointed-bottom [shoulder] jars, [Type A II c]; hard reddish brown ware with white specks, wet smoothed, stick-dressed, greenish slip burned pink on all but one side; in fragments, incomplete. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

ID

HUMFA_14-2-118a
Department

Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification

Vessels
Findspot

Pit G 4733 E
Material

Pottery
Dimensions

Height: 31 - 32 cm Diameter: 18.6 - 18.8 cm
Credit Line

Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Object Ownership Information

MFA
Period

Old Kingdom
Date of Register Entry

02/27/1914 - 03/01/1914

G 4733
- Site Name Western Cemetery

A History of the Giza Necropolis II, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Chapter 11: The Funerary Equipment Found in Burial Chambers, Page 328
- ID: HUMFA_14-2-118a
A History of the Giza Necropolis II, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Chapter 11: The Funerary Equipment Found in Burial Chambers, Page 328 (alternate version)
- ID: HUMFA_14-2-118a
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix N: Cemetery G 4000, page mm 045
- ID: HUMFA_14-2-118a
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix N: Cemetery G 4000, page mm 046
- ID: HUMFA_14-2-118a

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 14-12-118).

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