Digital Giza | Fragmentary pottery jar

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7000 X

Tall pottery wine jar [(shouldered jar)], [Type A II b]; WSR ware; mended, nearly complete. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

ID

EMC_JE_67757
Department

Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Classification

Vessels
Findspot

G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, 1224
Material

Pottery
Dimensions

Height: 38.7 cm Diameter: max: 24.8 cm; rim: 10.7 cm
Credit Line

Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number

HUMFA_34-4-5
Hetepheres findspot number

HH_1224
Object Ownership Information

In the collection of: Egyptian Museum, Cairo (EMC_JE_67757)
Object owned by

Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Notes

Mislabeled in JE as HH_1047(14).
Remarks

WSR = imitation of tufl ware in RW (red ware) or RBrW (red-brown ware) covered with light colored slip or wash

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. 63, fig. 58.

Fragmentary pottery jar