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2 of 2 • Pottery: dishes and jars (some mended, incomplete) from G 4530 A: top row: 14-1-79 (one of three dishes), 14-1-81 (= MFA 14.1029, dish), 14-1-72 (one of two saucers); bottom row: 14-1-76 (one of two jars), 14-1-74 (jar), 14-1-75 (= MFA 20.1888, one of four jars), 14-1-77 (one of five jars), 14-1-73 (= MFA 14.1022, base fragment of footed bowl)
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Pottery: dishes and jars (some mended, incomplete) from G 4530 A: top row: 14-1-79 (one of three dishes), 14-1-81 (= MFA 14.1029, dish), 14-1-72 (one of two saucers); bottom row: 14-1-76 (one of two jars), 14-1-74 (jar), 14-1-75 (= MFA 20.1888, one of four jars), 14-1-77 (one of five jars), 14-1-73 (= MFA 14.1022, base fragment of footed bowl)
Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4530
Five pottery jars, [Type B XVIII a]; ordinary brown ware, wet smoothed, knife-dressed below; one in fragments, incomplete. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2
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- ID
- HUMFA_14-1-77
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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 4530 A
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- Material
- Pottery
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- Dimensions
- Height: 9 - 9.9 cm Diameter: 7.1 cm
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- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Object Ownership Information
- MFA accession numbers: 14.1025.1, 14.1025.2
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- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
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- Date of Register Entry
- 01/15/1914 - 01/20/1914
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- Remarks
- Two of five pottery jars accessioned as MFA 14.1025.1, MFA 14.1025.2.
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- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession numbers verified
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
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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.
