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Fragments of pottery flaring bowls

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2200 = G 5080

Fragments of large pottery straight-sided [flaring bowls]; RW (red ware). Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_33-1-58
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 2200 (= G 5080) C, debris of pit itself
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 20.6 cm Diameter: 41.6 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession numbers: 37.2715, 33.1058
  • Date of Register Entry
    01/14/1933
  • Remarks
    Only one bowl originally recorded in object register and only one example cited in publication, but several appear in expedition photos.
  • Problems/Questions
    MFA accession numbers verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 5080

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 4

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. 85.