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Pottery cover with ledge handles

Pottery bowl cover with two hollow ledge handles, [Type G LII a]; smooth RBrW (red brown ware). Illustration: Yes

Details

  • ID
    EMC_JE_67645
  • Department
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Classification
    Vessels
  • Findspot
    G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, 1071(2)
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    Height: 6.1 cm; 7.3 cm Diameter: 46 cm
  • Credit Line
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
    HUMFA_34-4-46
  • Hetepheres findspot number
    HH_1071(2)
  • Object Ownership Information
    In the collection of: Egyptian Museum, Cairo (EMC_JE_67645)
  • Object owned by
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Notes
    Mislabeled in JE as HH_1024(24).

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Unpublished Documents 2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, p. 67, fig. 78.

Institutions 1