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Pottery footed bowls

Three pottery [footed] offering bowls and two fragments of fourth, [Type E XXI]; red ware (black interior), wet smoothed. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_13-10-51
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Tomb equipment-Offering tables and basins
  • Findspot
    Pit G 4340 A, debris in shaft
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 8.7 cm; 9.7 cm; 9.9 cm Diameter: max: 13.7 cm; max: 14 cm; max: 12.4 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Object Ownership Information
    MFA accession number: 20.1910
  • Period
    Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
  • Date of Register Entry
    10/21/1913
  • Remarks
    One of four pottery footed bowls accessioned as MFA 20.1910.
  • Problems/Questions
    MFA accession number verified

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 4340

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 3

Full Bibliography

  • Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 475.

    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.87, fig. 128.