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Small pottery [shoulder] jar, neck, rounded shoulder, tapering base, [Type A II c], stopper of sandy plaster; fine red ware, wheel-made, wet smoothed, pink drab slip; stopper broken. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_14-12-32
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 5221 A, chamber
  • Material
    Pottery, plaster
  • Dimensions
    Height: 30 cm Diameter: 15 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession number: 14.1744
  • Period
    Old Kingdom
  • Date of Register Entry
    12/06/1914
  • Problems/Questions
    MFA accession number verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 5221

    • 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Unpublished Documents 5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.