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Fragmentary pottery bowl

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 5561

Pottery [round bottomed] bowl with [rudimentary] recurved rim, [Type C LXVI b]; RP (red polished ware); practically complete. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_36-4-19
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 2357 M (= G 5561 M)
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 7.2 cm Diameter: 19 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Date of Register Entry
    04/04/1936
  • Remarks
    According to original OR entries 36-4-12 through 36-4-18 from G 2357 N = G 5561 N, 36-4-19 through 36-4-23 from G 2357 M = G 5561 M; diary entries for these two shafts (M = Vol.28.p.286, N = Vol.28.p.287) mention pottery (identified as fragments of model dishes) for shaft N only, no pottery mentioned for shaft M; pits G 2357 MNOPQRSTUVWXYZ = pits G 5561 MNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 5561

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 1

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. 83 (attributed to G 2357 N).