Diorite offering table
Diorite offering table (T. 1); greyish blue and black; good condition.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.740
- Alternate IDs
- 11.740; MFAB_11.740
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Tomb equipment-Offering tables and basins
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Title
- Diorite offering table
- Medium
- Diorite
- Dimensions
- Legacy dimension: .99 H. .311 W.
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / corridor III 20)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 186, fig. 56, no. 6, p. 264.
- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 1908: 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)