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Tall pottery two-handled [combed ware] jar, [Type B LIV]; red ware (sic !), decoration incised on shoulder [cylinder seal impression]; broken, mended, incomplete. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_35-7-41
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 2370 B, chamber
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 49 cm Diameter: max: 39.6 cm; mouth: 13 cm; body: 31.6 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession number: 37.2724
  • Date of Register Entry
    07/29/1935
  • Remarks
    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)
  • Problems/Questions
    MFA accession number verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 2370

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 3

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. 76, fig. 98.