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Pottery cover with loop handle

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

[Pottery cover with loop handle on top, pierced with small holes], [Type G LII c]. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_34-4-43
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, 1172(100)
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 5 cm; 6.9 cm Diameter: 19.6 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession number: 37.2712
  • Problems/Questions
    MFA accession number verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

Published Documents 1

Unpublished Documents 2

Full Bibliography

  • Markowitz, Yvonne J., Joyce L. Haynes, and Rita E. Freed. Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids: Highlights from the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expedition. Boston: MFA Publications, 2002, pp. 52-53, cat. 2h.

    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. 67, fig. 78.

    Smith, William Stevenson. "The Tomb of Hetep-heres I" Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 51, No. 284 (June 1953), p. 26, fig. 5.