Slate cylinder jar
Slate cylinder jar (H.S.Cyl. 5); drilled with borer (?); bluish-green, horizontal narrow bands of light green; broken and mended, one small piece missing.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.513
- Alternate IDs
- MFAB_11.513; 11.513
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Title
- Slate cylinder jar
- Medium
- Slate
- Dimensions
- Height x diameter: 14.4 x 6.8 cm (5 11/16 x 2 11/16 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. 188, fig. 60, no. 8.
- 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
- Two cylinder jars identified as H.S.Cyl. 5: MFA 11.498 (diorite), MFA 11.513 (slate).