Pottery offering jar
Crude coarse brown ware [traditional offering] jar, [Type A IV]. Tapered round base, straight rim, two punctures at rim. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2
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- ID
- PMAE_5883
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- Department
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
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- Classification
- Vessels
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- Findspot
- Pit G 4631 B, chamber
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- Material
- Pottery
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- Dimensions
- HUMFA object register: Height: 17 cm Diameter: 11.1 cm Peabody Museum record: H 16.5 x Diam. 11.5 cm; representative wall thickness 1.1 cm
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- Credit Line
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
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- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
- HUMFA_14-1-48
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- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology number
- 43-42-50/5883
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- Object Ownership Information
- In the collection of: Peabody Museum, Harvard University (cat. no. 5883)
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- Date of Register Entry
- 01/10/1914
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- Object owned by
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
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- Notes
- Object register entry for HUMFA_14-1-48 includes pottery jar, fragments of two red polished vessels, a tall red pot stand, and mud stoppers. Pottery jar is in the collection of the Peabody Museum (PMAE_5883); for the remaining objects see record HUMFA_14-1-48.
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- Remarks
- Pottery jar in collection of Peabody Museum.
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
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Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 496, fig. 304c, p. 498.
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. 71 (attributed to G 4631 A).
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
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