Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2381
Pottery [bent-sided roll-rim bowl] (cf. 12-12-556), [Type C XXX a]; contains mass of string net (12-12-565) and bivalve shell (12-12-566). Illustration: No
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- ID
- HUMFA_12-12-564
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- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Classification
- Vessels
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- Findspot
- Pit G 2381 A, [chamber] (410)
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- Material
- Pottery
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- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Object Ownership Information
- MFA accession number: 13.3278
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- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6, reign of Pepy II
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- Date of Register Entry
- 12/31/1912
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- Remarks
- Object in pottery bowl originally identified as "copper dish" but remark in entry 12-12-566 corrects identification, "on removing part of net and taking out object 566 it was found to be a shell not a dish".
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- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
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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. 80.