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Pottery footed bowl

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4140

Pottery offering bowl on stand (cf. 13-10-51), [Type E XXI]; fine brown ware, wet smoothed on inside and outside surfaces, covered with black hematite specks // fragment of similar bowl; slightly coarser brown ware (slight black interior). Illustration: No

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_13-11-25
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Tomb equipment-Offering tables and basins
  • Findspot
    Pit G 4140 A
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 8 cm Diameter: max: 15 cm; base: 9 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession number: 13.5628
  • Period
    Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
  • Date of Register Entry
    11/01/1913
  • Remarks
    One pottery footed bowl accessioned as MFA 13.5628.
  • Problems/Questions
    MFA accession number verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 4140

    • 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Unpublished Documents 3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. 461, fig. 279, p. 464.

    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.