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Pottery ring stand

[Pottery ring stand], [Type E XXIV]. Illustration: Yes

Details

  • ID
    GEM_6371
  • Department
    Grand Egyptian Museum
  • Classification
    Stands
  • Findspot
    G 7000 X, Hetepheres I, 1709(3)
  • Material
    Pottery
  • Dimensions
    15.1 x 13.7 cm; 731 g
  • Credit Line
    Grand Egyptian Museum
  • Journal d'Entree number
    EMC_JE_67759
  • Cairo Special Register number
    EMC_SR_1/10072
  • Hetepheres findspot number
    HH_1709(3)
  • Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
    HUMFA_34-4-61
  • Object Ownership Information
    In the collection of: Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM_6371, formerly EMC_JE_67759)
  • 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.

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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. 77.