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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

Details

  • ID
    PMAE_5883
  • Department
    Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 4631 B, chamber
  • Material
    Pottery
  • 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
  • Credit Line
    Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
  • Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
    HUMFA_14-1-48
  • Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology number
    43-42-50/5883
  • Object Ownership Information
    In the collection of: Peabody Museum, Harvard University (cat. no. 5883)
  • Date of Register Entry
    01/10/1914
  • Object owned by
    Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
  • 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.
  • Remarks
    Pottery jar in collection of Peabody Museum.

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 4631

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 5

Full Bibliography

  • 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).

Institutions 1