Broken jar

Museum number:
6-6593
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21060006593
Alternate number:
6-8700 (associated catalog number, sherd associated with this reconstructed piece) and TEMP 2015.0410 (temporary number, multiple cat #s)
Accession number:
Acc.54/56/63/109
Description:
Pottery: brownish jar, broken roughly, worked out at base with fingers.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Uncertain provenience, Deir el-Ballas, Upper Egypt
Verbatim coll. place:
Cemetery 1; Tomb 122 (revised per Victoria Jensen, 2023-05-17)
Culture or time period:
18th Dynasty of Egypt (1550–1295 BC) and 19th Dynasty of Egypt (1295–1186 BC)
Collector:
George Andrew Reisner
Collection date:
1900-1901
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Broken (damaged), Jars, and Pottery
Department:
Ancient Egypt
Comment:
According to Victoria Jensen (2023-05-17), "Provenience should be 'uncertain provenience, Deir el-Ballas'. The PAHMA registration journal attributes the vessel to 122 however, no such vessel was listed in the field notes for Tomb 122. There is no visible field mark.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 9 titled Broken jar, accession number 6-6593, described as Pottery: brownish jar, broken roughly, worked out at base with fingers.Hearst Museum object 2 of 9 titled Broken jar, accession number 6-6593, described as Pottery: brownish jar, broken roughly, worked out at base with fingers.Hearst Museum object 3 of 9 titled Broken jar, accession number 6-6593, described as Pottery: brownish jar, broken roughly, worked out at base with fingers.Hearst Museum object 4 of 9 titled Broken jar, accession number 6-6593, described as Pottery: brownish jar, broken roughly, worked out at base with fingers.Hearst Museum object 5 of 9 titled Broken jar, accession number 6-6593, described as Pottery: brownish jar, broken roughly, worked out at base with fingers.Hearst Museum object 6 of 9 titled Broken jar, accession number 6-6593, described as Pottery: brownish jar, broken roughly, worked out at base with fingers.Hearst Museum object 7 of 9 titled Broken jar, accession number 6-6593, described as Pottery: brownish jar, broken roughly, worked out at base with fingers.Hearst Museum object 8 of 9 titled Broken jar, accession number 6-6593, described as Pottery: brownish jar, broken roughly, worked out at base with fingers.Hearst Museum object 9 of 9 titled Broken jar, accession number 6-6593, described as Pottery: brownish jar, broken roughly, worked out at base with fingers.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Broken jar, accession number 6-6593, described as Pottery: brownish jar, broken roughly, worked out at base with fingers.

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