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Pottery: shoulder jar from G 4220 A: 14-4-27 (= MFA 20.1882)

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4220

Large pottery round-pointed-bottom [shoulder] jar, [Type A II c;] red ware (black interior), wet smoothed, stick-dressed, pinkish slip. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_14-4-27
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 4220 A, burial chamber
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 31 cm Diameter: 20 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession number: 20.1882
  • Period
    Old Kingdom
  • Date of Register Entry
    04/22/1914
  • Problems/Questions
    MFA accession number verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 4220

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 3

Full Bibliography

  • 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. 70, fig. 82.