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Pottery jar with mud and plaster stopper

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 5232, G 5221

Pottery [shoulder] jar with mud and plaster stopper (cf. 14-11-160), [Type A II c]; hard red brown ware, drab slip (wash), mud stopper covered with plaster; contents mud. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:4

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_14-11-159
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 5232 A
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 33.4 cm Diameter: 13.6 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession number: 20.1933
  • Period
    Old Kingdom
  • Date of Register Entry
    11/29/1914
  • Mentioned in entry
    Shiaka
  • Problems/Questions
    MFA accession number verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 5232

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 5

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. 83.

People 1

Modern People

  • Shiaka

    • Type Mentioned in entry
    • Nationality & Dates
    • Remarks Expedition worker at Giza.