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Fragmentary pottery flaring basin

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2200 = G 5080, G 2120, G 2150, G 2170, G 5562, G 2370

Thirteen fragments of pottery [flat bottomed flaring] basin, [Type D XXXIX a]; RW (red ware), red polished inside and outside; not quite complete. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_33-2-116
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 2347 X (= G 5562 A), debris of pit itself
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 20 cm Diameter: 33 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession number: 33.1087
  • Date of Register Entry
    02/04/1933
  • Problems/Questions
    MFA accession number verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 5562

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 2

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, fig. 121.