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Fragmentary pottery bowl with recurved rim and tubular spout

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2 of 4 • Pottery: bowls (mended, incomplete) from G 7330-7340: G 7330 A: top row: 34-6-17s (with recurved rim), 34-6-17a (with recurved rim and tubular spout, = JE 67612), 34-6-17t (with recurved rim); bottom row: 34-6-17k (with tubular spout), 34-6-17i (with tubular spout)
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Pottery: bowls (mended, incomplete) from G 7330-7340: G 7330 A: top row: 34-6-17s (with recurved rim), 34-6-17a (with recurved rim and tubular spout, = JE 67612), 34-6-17t (with recurved rim); bottom row: 34-6-17k (with tubular spout), 34-6-17i (with tubular spout)
Drawing: objects from G 7330 A: top: 34-6-14 (=MFA 47.1671) (alabaster bowl), 34-6-2 (granite weight), 34-6-13 (flint); 2nd row: 34-6-16 (pottery bead), 34-6-15 (flint); 3rd row: 34-6-17s (fragmentary pottery bowl with recurved rim), 34-6-12 (flint); 4th row: 34-6-17k (fragmentary pottery bowl with tubular spout), 34-6-17l (fragmentary pottery carinated bowl); 5th row: 34-6-17a (= JE 67612) (fragmentary pottery bowl with recurved rim and tubular spout); bottom left: 34-6-17g (fragmentary pottery jar); bottom center: 34-6-17b (fragmentary pottery bag-shaped jar), 34-6-17r (fragmentary pottery model dish), 34-6-17q (fragmentary pottery neckless shoulder jar); bottom right: 34-6-17e (fragmentary pottery jar)
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Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7330-7340

Six baskets full of potsherds, of which following pieced together and mended, all incomplete: a) red polished [flat bottomed] bowl with recurved rim [and long tubular] spout, [Type D XXXVI]; nearly complete, very fragile. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    EMC_JE_67612
  • Department
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    G 7330-7340: pit G 7330 A, debris of pit
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 15.6 cm Diameter: max: 33.2 cm; rim: 31.6 cm
  • Credit Line
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
    HUMFA_34-6-17a
  • Object Ownership Information
    In the collection of: Egyptian Museum, Cairo (EMC_JE_67612)
  • Date of Register Entry
    06/24/1934, 06/25/1934, 06/28/1934
  • Object owned by
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Problems/Questions
    Problem: is this bowl actually owned by the Egyptian Museum, Cairo ?

Tombs and Monuments 1

Unpublished Documents 6

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. 84, fig. 79.

Institutions 1