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Fragment of pottery bowl

Fragment of bent-sided bowl (Class C); plain drab ware, outward sloping sides, slightly flaring rim, coarse texture, circumferential incised line on interior side

Details

  • ID
    PMAE_5886
  • Department
    Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    G 1223-Annex X (?)
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    H 7.2 x W 21.6 x D 10.5 cm; representative wall thickness 0.8 cm
  • Credit Line
    Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
  • Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology number
    43-42-50/5886
  • Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
    HUMFA_34-10-4(2)
  • Period
    Old Kingdom
  • Object owned by
    Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
  • Notes
    There has been some confusion between this object and a fragmentary pottery jar also in the Peabody Museum, PMAE_5863 (=HUMFA_34-4-4). This seems to have come about due to a registry error in 1934, in which a number of objects were given 34-10-* and 34-12-* numbers, despite those numbers already having been used; these numbers were later changed to 34-4-*, to avoid duplication. However, PMAE_5886 should not have been "corrected" to 34-4-4 (from G 7000 X) in MFA records; it seems to belong with HUMFA_34-10-4 and HUMFA_34-10-5 (both bent-sided bowls, fragmentary, incomplete); it does not appear to fit with either bowl, but was shipped in BG#444, as was 34-10-5. Fragment is labeled 34-10-4(2).

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