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Pottery basin

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4512, G 4930, G 5210, G 4813

Pottery round bottomed basin, [Type C XXIX]; brown ware, red wash. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_14-12-44
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Mastaba G 5210, offering room (found inside 14-12-43)
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 12.5 cm Diameter: 18.4 cm x 18.7 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession number: 20.1937
  • Period
    Old Kingdom
  • Date of Register Entry
    12/08/1914
  • Problems/Questions
    MFA accession number verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 5210

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 2

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. 79.