Object owner details: MFA 37.2717, 37.2721; Peabody Museum, Harvard (cat. no. 5873)

Findspot: Western Cemetery, Pit G 2370 B, chamber

Pottery

Expedition Measurements: Height: 21.6 cm Diameter: max: 20.5 cm; rim: 7.8 - 9.2 cm

Description: Fragments of at least fourteen pottery jars, [Type A VI]; red polished ware; partly mended, none complete. 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. 71 (attributed to G 2370 A), fig. 86.

Remarks: Two of fourteen fragmentary jars accessioned as: MFA 37.2721 (= h), MFA 37.2717 (= i). 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)