Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2370
Fragments of at least fourteen pottery jars, [Type A VI]; red polished ware; partly mended, none complete. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2
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- ID
- HUMFA_35-7-23
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- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Classification
- Vessels
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- Findspot
- Pit G 2370 B, chamber
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- Material
- Pottery
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- Dimensions
- Height: 21.6 cm Diameter: max: 20.5 cm; rim: 7.8 - 9.2 cm Dimensions of jar g (= PMAE_5873): H 21.5 x W 21 cm
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- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology number
- PMAE_5873
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- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology number
- 43-42-50/5873
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- Object Ownership Information
- MFA 37.2717, 37.2721; Peabody Museum, Harvard (cat. no. 5873)
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- Date of Register Entry
- 07/28/1935
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- Notes
- Two of fourteen fragmentary jars accessioned as: MFA 37.2721 (= h), MFA 37.2717 (= i); nine in collection of the MFA (unaccessioned); one accessioned as PMAE_5873 (=g). Provenance: originally identified as G 2370 A corrected to read G 2370 B (see Brovarski 2001 p.79 footnote 580 concerning reidentification of shaft from A to B)
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- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession numbers verified
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
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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. 71 (attributed to G 2370 A), fig. 86.
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