Potsherd, coarse brown ware

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Object Number 43-42-50/5871.2

Display Title Potsherd, coarse brown ware

Descriptions

Inventory Description Ceramic sherd, possible handle fragment, slightly coarse texture, brown ware

Classification

Sherd

Department Archaeological

Culture

Old Kingdom
Early 4th Hetepheres

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Egypt / <State> / <County> / Giza

Materials Ceramic

Dimensions Overall: 7.3 × 5.3 × 4.5 cm (2 7/8 × 2 1/16 × 1 3/4 in.) Other (Representative wall thickness): 1.1 cm (7/16 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 43-42-50/5871.2; 107 / #

Credit Line Exchange, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1943

Provenance

Collector George A. Reisner (1905-1939)

Expedition Harvard University- Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition (1905-1939)

Exchange participant Boston Museum of Fine Arts (December 29, 1943)

Intermediary Dows Dunham

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PrimaryMedia	Object Number	Title	Classification	Geography/Provenience
	43-42-50/5871.4	Potsherd, coarse brown ware	Sherd	Giza
	43-42-50/5871.3	Potsherd, coarse brown ware	Sherd	Giza
	43-42-50/5871.1	Potsherd, coarse brown ware	Sherd	Giza
	43-42-50/5870.1	Sherd of large spouted basin with recurved rim, coarse brown ware	Sherd	Giza
Image Not Available for 7 potsherds - brown to red-brown burnish inside and out; coarse, thick	36-103-60/2669	7 potsherds - brown to red-brown burnish inside and out; coarse, thick	Sherd	Armenia
	43-42-50/5870	39 sherds of type of large, spouted basin with recurved rim - coarse brown ware	Bowl	Giza
	34-169-40/2644	Rim potsherds - plain coarse brown ware - low burnish	Sherd	Greece
Image Not Available for Potsherd, coarse, thick, red, brown, and black ware	33-24-50/176	Potsherd, coarse, thick, red, brown, and black ware	Sherd	Merimdeh
Image Not Available for 5 potsherds - brown, burnish (only faint traces on majority); coarse,	36-103-60/2661	5 potsherds - brown, burnish (only faint traces on majority); coarse,	Sherd	Armenia
Image Not Available for 7 potsherds - light brown, traces of burnish; coarse, dark gray to red-brown,	36-103-60/2688	7 potsherds - light brown, traces of burnish; coarse, dark gray to red-brown,	Sherd	Armenia
	55-57-20/19826	2 large potsherds - coarse red-brown ware	Jar	Kaminaljuyu
	983-5-10/58846	Miscellaneous coarse orange ware sherds; One jug handle, unglazed; Three brown g	Body Handle	Harvard Yard

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