Copper model neckless shoulder jar
Copper model neckless shoulder jar; surface heavily encrusted and damaged. [08-7-39]
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.718
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_11.718; 11.718
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Title
- Copper model neckless shoulder jar
- Medium
- Copper
- Dimensions
- Height x width: 8 x 6.2 cm (3 1/8 x 2 7/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / on wall between magazines III 7 and III 8, with Opening of the Mouth set)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 36 (July 19), p. 231 (no. 5), p. 263.
- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. Excavated by the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; 1911: assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt. (Accession date: March 2, 1911)
- Remarks
- Registration number obtained from publication; no registration records available for 1908. Found with Opening of the Mouth set including: MFA 11.765 (flint pesesh-kef), MFA 11.767, MFA 11.768, MFA 11.769 (three basalt model cups), MFA 11.770 (quartz crystal model cup), MFA 11.771 (alabaster model bottle), MFA 11.772 (basalt model bottle).