Accessory from limestone servant statue: beer vat
Limestone [model vat] from servant statuette; outside painted red, top white (?), bottom uncolored, hole in bottom for fastening to base; rim chipped, spout bruised.
Illustration: Yes
Details
- ID
- MMA_64.66.12
- Alternate IDs
- 64.66.12; MMA_64.66.12; HUMFA_12-11-34; 12-11-34; MFAB_13.3443; 13.3443
- Department
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Period
- Old Kingdom, First half Dynasty 6
- Entry Date
- 11/14/1912
- Title
- Accessory from limestone servant statue: beer vat
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height: 4.6 cm Diameter: 4.4 cm
- Credit Line
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Fletcher Fund, 1964
- Provenance
- Mastaba G 2371, outside N wall
- Notes
- Excavated by the Harvard-Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expediton in Giza, 1912. Received from the Egyptian Government by the MFA in the allotment of finds (MFAB_13.3443). Deaccessioned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on April 8, 1964.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA and MMA accession numbers verified