Digital Giza | Pottery basin with tubular spout

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: G 2381

Large [deep] pottery [flat bottomed basin] with [roll rim and short tubular] spout (cf. 12-12-567), [Type D XXXV a]. Illustration: No

ID

MMA_37.6.6
Department

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Classification

Vessels
Findspot

Pit G 2381 A, [chamber] (414)
Material

Pottery
Dimensions

Height: 32.2 cm Diameter: 37 x 38 cm (top), 15.4 cm (bottom)
Credit Line

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1937
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number

HUMFA_12-12-568
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston accession number

MFAB_13.3271
Object Ownership Information

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, MMA_37.6.6; deaccessioned MFAB_13.3271
Period

Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6, probably reign of Pepi I
Date of Register Entry

12/31/1912
Object owned by

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Notes

Excavated by the Harvard-Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expediton in Giza, 1912. Received from the Egyptian Government by the MFA in the allotment of finds (MFAB_13.3271). Deaccessioned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, by exchange in 1937.
Problems/Questions

MFA and MMA accession numbers verified

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. p. 83.

Pottery basin with tubular spout