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Pottery jar with hieratic inscription

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2385, G 2387

Greater part of pottery egg-shaped [shoulder] jar, [Type A II c]; drab ware, hieratic inscription on shoulder. Illustration: Yes with hieroglyphs. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_35-7-16
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 2387 A (main shaft of G 2385), chamber
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 26.5 cm (as preserved) Diameter: 20 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA
  • Date of Register Entry
    07/06/1935
  • Remarks
    G 2387 A (main shaft of G 2385) first excavated in 1912 and reexcavated in 1935.

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 2385

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

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. 70.