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Fragment of pottery offering jar

Pottery round bottomed [traditional offering] jar, [Type A IV]; reddish brown rough ware (black interior), thick ware, wet smoothed, red wash; in fragments, incomplete. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_14-1-96
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    Pit G 4341 A, shaft
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: ca 26.5 cm Diameter: ca 16 cm
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Date of Register Entry
    01/25/1914 - 02/01/1914

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 4341

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 3

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. 71.