Alabaster model jar
Alabaster model jar (Dim. 8), rim modeled at top; solid, drilling started at neck; fine grained, red veined; unfinished, good condition.
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- ID
- MFAB_11.713
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- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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- Classification
- Vessels
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- Findspot
- Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT / I 389 sub)
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- Material
- Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
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- Dimensions
- Height x diameter: 3.8 x 4.1 cm (1 1/2 x 1 5/8 in.)
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- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Object Ownership Information
- MFA
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- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
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- 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)
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- Site Name Menkaure Pyramid Complex
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Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 184, fig. 52, no. 18.