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Pottery model jar

Pottery model jar, [Type B LVIII]; ordinary brown ware, rather fine. Flat slightly expanded base, rounded body, constricted neck and rim, two parallel lines incised on body; small losses to base and rim, small crack in base. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    PMAE_5880
  • Department
    Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 4640 A, shaft
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    HUMFA object register: Height: 10 cm; Diameter: 5.5 cm Peabody Museum record: H 9.95 x Diam. 5.6 cm; measurement of opening 3.9 cm; representative width of rim 0.6 cm; representative distance between incised lines: 1.4 cm
  • Credit Line
    Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
  • Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
    HUMFA_13-12-12
  • Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology number
    43-42-50/5880
  • Object Ownership Information
    In the collection of: Peabody Museum, Harvard University (cat. no. 5880)
  • Period
    Old Kingdom
  • Date of Register Entry
    12/11/1913
  • Object owned by
    Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 4640

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 4

Full Bibliography

  • Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 483, fig. 291.

    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. 78, fig. 103.

Institutions 1