Copper hes-vase
Copper hes-vase; broken and mended.
Details
- ID
- MFAB_11.744
- Alternate IDs
- 11.744; MFAB_11.744
- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Classification
- Vessels
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Title
- Copper hes-vase
- Medium
- Copper
- Dimensions
- Height x diameter: 34 x 10 cm (13 3/8 x 3 15/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / debris of court, about 1 meter from paved causeway)
- Bibliography
- Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, pp. 38, 231 (no. 1), pl. 65d.
- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 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)