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Pottery bowl with recurved rim and tubular spout

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4340

Pottery [flat bottomed bowl with recurved rim and long tubular spout], [Type D XXXVI]; soft red ware, broken section red throughout, red wash, no hematite marks, pebble burnished (cf. 13-10-30, but lighter red and not so polished). Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_13-10-31
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 4340 A, debris in shaft
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 18.5 cm Diameter: rim: 30 cm; base: 10 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession number: 34.1473
  • Period
    Old Kingdom
  • Date of Register Entry
    10/21/1913
  • Problems/Questions
    MFA accession number verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 4340

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 3

Full Bibliography

  • Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 472, fig. 285, p. 474.

    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. 84, fig. 119.