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Four pottery jars, [Type B XVIII a]; ordinary brown ware, wet smoothed, knife-dressed; one in fragments, incomplete. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_14-1-75
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 4530 A
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 9 - 9.8 cm Diameter: 7.2 - 8 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession number: 20.1888
  • Period
    Old Kingdom
  • Date of Register Entry
    01/15/1914 - 01/20/1914
  • Remarks
    One of four pottery jars accessioned as MFA 20.1888. One of four pottery jars MFA owned (unaccessioned).
  • Problems/Questions
    MFA accession number verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 4530

    • 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Unpublished Documents 3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, pp. 489-490, fig. 297a.

    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. 73, fig. 91.