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Fragmentary pottery jar

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2120, G 2160, G 2170, G 2180

Small pottery [shoulder] jar, [Type A II b]; RW (red ware); twelve fragments fitting and mended, [incomplete]. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_33-1-14
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 2120 A, debris of pit itself
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 11.6 cm Diameter: 8.4 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession number: 33.1029
  • Date of Register Entry
    01/04/1933
  • Problems/Questions
    MFA accession number verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 2120

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 2

Full Bibliography

  • Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 426, fig. 245, p. 429.

    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. 69, fig. 81.