Diorite bowl
Shallow diorite bowl (H.S.B. 42), rim modeled at top; black and grey; broken and mended, pieces missing.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.465
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_11.465; 11.465
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Title
- Diorite bowl
- Medium
- Diorite
- Dimensions
- Other: 4.5 x 11.7 cm (1 3/4 x 4 5/8 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 186, fig. 56, no. 19.
- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 1908-1910: 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)