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Pottery cover with loop handle

Pottery cover with loop handle on top, pierced with small holes, [Type G LII c] (evidently piece covering seal on canopic chest, WSS (1950)); smooth RBrW (red brown ware). Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    GEM_6395
  • Department
    Grand Egyptian Museum
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, pit (6)
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 4.1 cm; 6.6 cm Diameter: 12.4 cm Weight: 181 g
  • Credit Line
    Grand Egyptian Museum
  • Journal d'Entree number
    EMC_JE_67638
  • Cairo Special Register number
    EMC_SR_1/10050
  • Hetepheres findspot number
    HH_pit_6
  • Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
    HUMFA_34-4-42
  • Object Ownership Information
    In the collection of: Grand Egyptian Museum, (GEM_6395, formerly EMC_JE_67638)
  • Period
    Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Khufu
  • Notes
    A large portion of Special Register section 7 (volumes 13-16) was originally misnumbered, with the object numbers following in sequence from section 1 volume 4; these numbers have thus been given EMC_SR_1 prefixes, despite being recorded in section 7.

Tombs and Monuments 1

Unpublished Documents 2

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, pp. 48, 67, fig. 78.