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Pottery canopic jar

Pottery canopic jar with pointed bottom, [Type A II c]; pink WSR ware, sealed with white plaster. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2

Details

  • ID
    EMC_JE_67615
  • Department
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Classification
    Tomb equipment-Canopics and canopic Boxes
  • Findspot
    Pit G 2006 A, chamber
  • Material
    Pottery, plaster
  • Dimensions
    Height: 31 cm Diameter: max: 17.4 cm
  • Credit Line
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
    HUMFA_36-3-61
  • Object Ownership Information
    In the collection of: Egyptian Museum, Cairo, EMC_JE_67615
  • Date of Register Entry
    03/30/1936
  • Object owned by
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Remarks
    WSR = imitation of tufl ware in RW (red ware) or RBrW (red-brown ware) covered with light colored slip or wash

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 2006

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 5

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. 70.

Institutions 1