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Pottery jars

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4422

Two pottery [shoulder] jars, [Type A II c], and fragments of mud sealing (fine clay); RP (red polished); perfect, partly filled with solid mud. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_38-6-47
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 4422 B, chamber
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 28.4 - 28.8 cm Diameter: max: 20 - 20.6 cm; rim: 10.2 - 10 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Date of Register Entry
    06/19/1938

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 4422

    • 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.