Related: Fragmentary pottery combed ware jar
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Site: Giza; view: G 2370

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  • Site: Giza; view: G 2370
  • Site: Giza; view: G 2370
Object register entry:
Field number: 35-7-41
Entry date(s): 07/29/1935
Object owner details: MFA accession number: 37.2724
Fragmentary pottery combed ware jar
Findspot: Western Cemetery, Pit G 2370 B, chamber
Pottery
Expedition Measurements: Height: 49 cm Diameter: max: 39.6 cm; mouth: 13 cm; body: 31.6 cm
Description: Tall pottery two-handled [combed ware] jar, [Type B LIV]; red ware (sic !), decoration incised on shoulder [cylinder seal impression]; broken, mended, incomplete. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: 1:2
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Selected Published References:
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. 76, fig. 98.
Remarks: Provenance: originally identified as G 2370 A corrected to read G 2370 B (see Brovarski 2001 p.79 footnote 580 concerning reidentification of shaft from A to B)
Problems/Questions: MFA accession number verified