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Fragment of pottery combed ware jar

Object register page:

Fragment of pottery [two-handled combed ware jar], [Type B LIV]; red ware, outside wet smoothed and marked with fine horizontal grooves, series of short vertical, apparently irregular, grooves at intervals (too sharp and too close together to have been made by stick being drawn over pot when nearly dry). Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_13-11-57
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Chapel E of mastaba G 4140
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Date of Register Entry
    11/01/1913

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Unpublished Documents 3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. 465.

    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. 75.