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Fragmentary pottery jar

Six baskets full of potsherds, of which following pieced together and mended, all incomplete: g) large wine jar [(shoulder jar)], [Type A II b]; nearly complete, mouth irregular. White slipped, X-shaped incised mark on surface, mended from 61 fragments. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    PMAE_5885
  • Department
    Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    G 7330-7340: pit G 7330 A, debris of pit
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    HUMFA object register: Height: 35 cm Diameter: max: 23.2 cm; rim: 11 cm Peabody Museum record: H 33 x W 21.5 cm; representative rim thickness 0.9 cm
  • Credit Line
    Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
  • Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
    HUMFA_34-6-17g
  • Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology number
    43-42-50/5885
  • Date of Register Entry
    06/24/1934, 06/25/1934, 06/28/1934

Tombs and Monuments 1

Unpublished Documents 4

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. 69.