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Fragments of pottery bowls

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

Eight baskets full of potsherds: c) fragments of at least [seven] different RW (red ware) bowls with recurved rim and three bent-sided bowls, and also bent-sided bowl with thickened rim, [including: round bottomed bowls with recurved rims Type C XXXII, bent-sided roll-rim bowl Type C XXX a, bent-sided bowls Type C XXX b]. Illustration: Yes [rim forms]. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_33-1-59c
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 2200 (= G 5080) C, debris of pit itself
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Date of Register Entry
    01/13/1933, 01/14/1933
  • Notes
    Eight baskets of potsherds registered as HUMFA_33-1-59; of these, nine bowls with recurved rims and four bent-sided bowls registered as HUMFA_33-1-59c. One bowl (restored) accessioned as MFA 37.2719 [this is probably either c(4)a or c(4)b]. Other bowls (some repaired, incomplete) MFA owned (unaccessioned). One bowl [c(2)a] in collection of Egyptian Museum, Cairo, EMC_JE_67614. One bent-sided bowl with thickened rim included under HUMFA_33-1-59c in object register page; this seems to be the bowl referred to elsewhere (see packing lists) as HUMFA_33-1-59f [designation f not used in object register], and is probably the one seen in photo HUMFA_B8705_NS, 4/1.

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 5080

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 12

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. 80, fig. 108, p. 81, fig. 110.